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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH

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To: Srexley who wrote (189552)	10/5/2001 5:15:55 PM
From: J_F_Shepard	Read Replies (2) of 769670

"You KNEW for sure he was lying????" Glad to see you are not so absolute now, but you still say it was very very probable that he was lying. That was my sole reason for telling you my personal story with the cigarettes. First of all I was never a regular smoker of cigarettes. I smoked them when they were free and never liked the taste of smoking paper but did smoke and enjoy cigars when I could afford one. I didn't want to inhale cigarettes because I recognized that they were addictive. I didn't think I was likely to get addicted to cigars since I didn't inhale and when I tried to quit about 20 years later I didn't have much of a problem. There was some addiction but it wasn't anywhere near the level of cigarette smokers since I had only ingested nicotine orally. With regard to pot smoking I think you are right .....you have to inhale to get the full effect although if you are in a crowd of smokers you might get a second hand effect. I think Clinton did the same thing I would have done and probably for the same reason.....he didn't want to inhale because he had never done it before and inhaling a cigarette the first few times is not a pleasant experience. He was probably also concerned about addiction to a drug we were being told was both mind altering and addictive. My daughter confessed to trying it in college but also didn't inhale largely because she is not a smoker and didn't want to learn how to inhale. I have a friend who was a smoker and did try it including the inhaling......he said he couldn't feel any effect and thought a lot of it was power of suggestion. Another chain smoking colleague had a similar comment. The point is, it was easy for comedians and the political opposition to make a fool of Clinton's admission but in fact not all people who try pot and cigarettes do inhale . As to looking "dorky" if you didn't get high, I don't think that's true either. I see the same effect with alcohol.....some folks falling over themselves after a glass of beer while others will control themselves for hours..... I know this is true cause I do it myself.....I'm convinced most alcohol induced behavior is a state of mind.... don't get the impression I'm saying alcohol doesn't have an effect, it does, but the silly behavior is controllable.....

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