Sedaris first presents himself as a non- smoker, who has no interested in smoking. How he reacts to his sister when she first began to smoke portrays a sense that he going to a unique individual who is not going to give in to the pressure of smoking. When his sister began to smoke his reaction was, “he forbade her to enter my [his] bedroom with a lit cigarette. She could talk to me, but only from the other side of the threshold, and she had to avert her head when she exhaled” (Sedaris 1).This refers to the time of his live when he was a non-smoker, who did not want to smell the smoke of his sisters cigarette. He explained his reasoning by, “It wasn’t the smoke but the smell of it that bother me” (Sedaris 1). His reaction is like many other