Sipping a bit more and drawing lighter helps keep the tobacco from burning too hot
And it's worth noting that, while child abuse is never justified in any case, Homer strangles Bart because of his bad temper when Bart makes him mad unlike Peter who tortures Meg for his own amusement
In order to make the daily paper a necessity, or a habit, of the masses, it was essential to depart from the pomposity of the older journals, with their long and platitudinous leading articles about nothing in particular, their unattractive make-up, their bald presentation of news, the immense length of their police court reports, and their adherence to the theory that the fall of a Cabinet in Patagonia was of more interest to the reader than a murder on his doorstep
True, by the early 1970s those who were truly hip to the zeitgeist were packing the habit in
Inability to care for a family, hold down a job, or perform in school