Wheaton never mentioned this about C.S. Lewis!!

apparantly he smoked 60 cigarettes a day! between pipes! hahahahhaa. This tops even the Bonhoeffer habit we have harped on on this here blog.
from the ever-interesting Writer's Alamanac, Mar 29th:
On this day in 2004, the Republic of Ireland became the first country to completely ban cigarette smoking from the workplace. Great Britain soon followed, instituting a ban to be phased in gradually over the next four years, which prompted author and columnist A.N. Wilson to remark in the Telegraph: "Sitting with my drink in such now-empty bars, my mind has turned to the great smokers of the past — to C.S. Lewis, who smoked 60 cigarettes a day between pipes with his friends Charles Williams (cigarette smoker) and Tolkien (pipe-smoker); to Thomas Carlyle, whose wife made him smoke in the kitchen of their house in Cheyne Row, but who is unimaginable without tobacco, to Robert Browning, who quickly adapted to the new cigarette craze, to the great John Cowper Powys, who continued to smoke cigarettes, and to produce fascinating novels, into his nineties ... This attack on basic liberty, which was allowed through without any significant protest, might mark the end not merely of smoking, but of literature."
Although I think A.N. Wilson might be slightly over-stating the case, and the public health-benefits to smoking bans are unquestionable, there is a little something that has been lost...