The 2004 Peacock Invitational is now in progress. Our contestants are:

Me
Tiffany
Joey
Jeremy
Tiger

The five of us are now on our honor to not smoke until March 15 of 2005. That's no smoking, period. No taking a single puff off of a buddy's cig. No pipe or stogie in the champagne room. No chaw or other sneaky ways to get nicotine either*.

The penalty if anybody fails is to pay each of the other betters $25 each. That means that for all of us the next cigarette we smoke in the next year would cost us $100. If that's not an incentive not to suck on a butt then I don't know what is.

Good luck my compatriots. I sincerely hope I don't see a dime from any of you.

* Exceptions are valid quit-smoking aids like Nicorette Gum or the Patch.