One Time In America — My Only Day In The USA

Philip Ogley
4 min readApr 3, 2022
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It’s 1998. I'm standing in line at The United Airlines check-in desk smoking a Marlboro.

‘Excuse me, sir?’

‘You can’t smoke here. It’s a federal violation.’

‘A what?’

‘It’s against the law — you’ve got to smoke outside.’

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