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--- You wrote:
 i feel that
ciggarettes play a very important role in salinger's books.  
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you're on to something here--I remember that several months ago we had an
interesting discussion going on this topic. It seems to me that in focusing so
heavily on smokers and their habits, Salinger was BOTH reflecting the habits of
his time and effectively characterizing a certain group of people. There is an
intense nervousness to so many of Salinger's characters that is captured in
their smoking habits, as well as a kind of well-bred indolence. Remember that
Holden was worried that his mother would hear him go to Phoebe's room because
she usually sat up chain smoking half the night.

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