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To: HPilot who wrote (713102)	11/14/2005 2:49:10 PM
From: Kenneth E. Phillipps	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769670

"Addictions are easy to get rid of, once rid of they no longer effect the body,.." I can't agree with you on that one. There are many cases of former smoker getting lung cancer up to 25 years after quitting smoking - Many more cases of emphysema, COPD, and heart disease developing years later.

To: HPilot who wrote (713102)	11/14/2005 2:57:48 PM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

"Quiting smoking is easy. It's not being tempted to start again that is the problem." You raise an important conumdrum... but there is no clear, bright line between 'physical' addiction and 'psychological' addiction, since body and mind are one. The 'recidivism' rate I referred to is an objective measure --- it simply refers to the percentage of users who try to quit a substance, but fall back into it's use. (By that one measure, recidivism, nicotine addiction falls in the same percentage area as opiates... as high or even higher.) But, measures of 'recidivism' don't even attempt to draw a line between addictions that are 'physical' or that are 'psychological'. All they measure is the rate of FAILURE. The rate of RELAPSE into use. (And, as I pointed out... there are several different 'measures' for the concept of 'addictive potential'.)