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To: MulhollandDrive who wrote (34342)	5/12/2005 10:43:44 AM
From: Bill	Respond to of 90947

That's a shame. But it does prove how much people enjoy a good smoke, even after an extended time off.

To: MulhollandDrive who wrote (34342)	5/12/2005 11:00:45 AM
From: Lady Lurksalot	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 90947

Mulholland Drive, I can go you one better with The Saga of Our Nurse Ratched: I have quit smoking only a few times, for various reasons, but never because of health. One quit was motivated when the hospital ER I worked in went nonsmoking. You would be surprised how many quit working, rather than quit smoking. I had been there a few years when a new nursing director, Nurse "Ratched," came on board. She was a former smoker, having quit about 15 years prior when she was pregnant with her daughter. Nothing worse than a reformed smoker, and Nurse Ratched was the worst of the worst. She immediately initiated a no-smoking policy for most of the ER, and the howls of protest among the ranks killed nearly 60 miles of CalTrans plantings. Nurse Ratched held firm. Nurse Ratched quickly became unpopular. Years passed. Parties were thrown. People smoked at the parties, including Nurse Ratched's daughter who had taken up the ballet and wanted to keep her weight down. Nurse Ratched was about in apoplexy over this. In attempt to show her daughter what a foul and unladylike behavior smoking was, Nurse Ratched proceeded to take a cigarette and puff on it, making alternately grotesque and silly faces, a sight to behold which defies description; you'd have had to have been there. Well, guess what? Even before the sun shone upon the next morning Nurse Ratched was a reformed reformed chain-smoker. I kid you not! Within a month. you could have smoked Virginia hams in her office. But she never did rescind her no-smoking edict for the rest of the ER. She became even more unpopular. More years passed. Edicts came down from on high, those being that there would be no smoking anywhere, at anytime within the hospital. Period. Nurse Ratched now was doomed to join the rest of us in near-constant nicotine withdrawal, and she still was not a popular person. So, you see, the time--be it weeks, months, years--dosen't matter. It can strike again at any time. Best not to tempt fate, I guess. - Holly