"We were out of breath, we both took a drag" suggests exhaustion mixed with contentment
Finally, as this walk passes through long stretches that are today blighted by shopping malls and attendant automobile traffic, parking lots, and gas stations, perhaps I too am humming a lamentation for a simpler era, a time when walking, as the two spies did, or riding on horseback, as George Washington did when he stopped in Marlborough in 1776 and again in 1789, was the way to travel, an era before Henry Ford and others provided the average consumer with a machine that, in the words of Bill McKibben in a recent article in the New York Review of Books has reconfigured the planet, with its carbon emissions melting the poles and raising sea levels
However, the absolute number indicated that 3.4 million Ethiopian adults currently use any form of tobacco and most of them smoked tobacco daily (Table 7)
But youre only six-and-a-half and youre in shock