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To: Alan Smithee who wrote (139469)	4/5/2007 3:46:09 AM
From: John Carragher	Respond to of 225578

i quit in 60's hated idea of something controlling me. and had three small kids, it was time. however, quit for a year, used excuse to light one up , to use to light fireworks on the 4th of july. next day smoking a pack by end of week more than a pack a day for the next year. bet a guy a case of scotch one who could last the longest without a cig. I won the case but told him to keep it. that was six months after we quit and he started up. But i remembered the one cig i had to light the fireworks and it was all over.. I never went back to cigs. Now booze.. that took another twenty years to kick.

To: Alan Smithee who wrote (139469)	4/5/2007 11:56:21 AM
From: Ken Adams	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 225578

I started smoking when I was 15. By the time I went into the Marine Corps I was doing 2 packs of Lucky Strikes a day. A "deck" of Luckies, as they were known in the barracks. Nearly everyone smoked back then. I did for only some 7 or 8 years. I quit to save the money. It was a difficult thing for me to give them up and it was all of 3 years before I finally realized how terrible they tasted. Never went back after that. That was well over 47 years ago. I can't stand to be in the vicinity of a smoker today.