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To: Neocon who wrote (26545)	5/30/1999 11:58:00 AM
From: Jacques Chitte	Read Replies (2) of 71178

>We readily label all kinds of things addictive nowadays, from sex to the Internet, and I am tired of it, because it ultimately undermines personal responsibility.< You could have made your point as simply as this, Neocon, without getting nasty as you did in the following insinuations. Either demonstrate which of my friends require what special help, or apologize for your libel. If you have lurked my writing at all, you already know that I despise the current culture of victimhood. But we have divergent opinions re the impact of nicotine on willpower. I have seen strong people, folks who could walk away from a bad relationship or a blackjack table or a soap opera try and fail repeatedly to quit cigarettes. I maintain that addiction to nicotine is not a sometime thing, but the norm for smokers of cigarettes. Can you provide neutral-party statistics showing that addiction is not the general outcome of habitual smoking? I am not interested in discussing all the sideband noise, like the politics and economics of tobacco.

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