毛泽东主席抽烟只用火柴,从不曾用过打火机。他擦火柴的习惯也与众不同,一般人多是在火柴盒两侧磷皮上随手擦划,而主席只擦磷皮的两端。结果,一盒火柴用完了,磷皮的中间部分还从未擦过。一次,一位新来的工作人员在给主席收拾物品时,随手把几个空火柴盒扔进了垃圾桶。主席发现后马上叫他捡了回来。这位工作人员不解地问:“主席,空盒子还要啊?”主席说:“凡是可以用 Chairman Mao Zedong only used matches to smoke, and never used a lighter. His habit of rubbing matches is also unusual. Mostly, people often scratch the skin on both sides of the matchbox while the chairman only rubs the ends of the skin. As a result, a box of matches run out, the middle of the skin has never been rubbed. Once, a new staff member readily put a few empty matchboxes into the trash when packing the items for the chair. The chairman immediately asked him to pick it up. The staff puzzled to ask: ”Chairman, empty boxes even ah? “ Chairman said: ”All can be used