Apparently, camels and mules are not equally affected by smoking.

I’m not a smoker. I tried smoking as a teenager to improve my ‘appearance’, so I thought, but I found that price too high: simply, I did not enjoy it.

I never smoked cigarettes. There wasn’t anything virtuous about it, I just never did. I tried them a few times but they made me cough and made my mouth taste bad so I never smoked.

Those of us who don’t smoke, don’t like to have smokers in the room with us but I think the time has come for us to be more tolerant of smokers. We’ve been awfully mean to them and they’ve got a problem.

You can see how people get hooked on smoking. We all like to do the things we know how to do best and smokers get very familiar with all the little moves they make with cigarettes. [...]

But no matter how they smoke them ... COUGH ... no kidding ... you have to remember that cigarette smokers are people, too. We all hope they’ll stop but whether they stop or not, let’s all be nice to a cigarette smoker today ... after all, we may not have them with us for long. COUGH.

Andy Rooney: Cigarette smoking, in Years of minutes, PublicAffairs, New York, 2003.