Dennis Hopper & Gavin Walker

In my 83 years I have only smoked two cigarettes. It was in 1959 in my Austin, Texas boarding school that three of my classmates offered me a Marlboro telling me that I would like to smoke it. They put it in my mouth, they lit it, and it exploded. They all laughed and offered me another one. It exploded again.

Around 1963 I began to smoke a pipe and later on I alternated it with Mexican or Cuban cigars. Twenty years ago I was smoking a pipe in my unventilated darkroom and became dizzy. It was then that I decided that smoking was a silly habit and I quit.

The above is but an introduction to a couple of men who smoked Kools. Of Gavin Walker I must mention that he died a couple of weeks ago and it has affected me lots as we were very good friends.