>Pessoa was a creature of multitudinous consciousness, a solitary, dapper, buttoned-down man with the turbulent soul of a modernist. He occupied a quiet place as a commercial translator and writer for small literary magazines while haunting the cafés of Lisbon, smoking eighty cigarettes a day, and scribbling away in notebooks.

That means that Pessoa smoked five cigarettes per hour, or one every twelve minutes. What was his problem?