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To: Lizzie Tudor who wrote (8269)	10/8/1998 8:55:00 PM
From: jbe	Respond to of 67261

*************Off Topic:The Demon Nicotine********** Michelle, I started smoking when I was 16 -- and believe it or not, it was my sainted (I am not being sarcastic) mother who "turned me on." I was on a diet at the time. I had lost over 30 pounds, and my body was balking at losing any more. I had reduced my food intake to something like three tomatoes a day. My mother looked at me, and said, as I remember to this day, "You look so miserable. Have a cigarette." So I did, and the whole room started spinning around. I recall thinking -- "why does anybody** smoke this garbage?" But since I thought it might help me with my weight-reduction program, I continued, dutifully, to smoke. Within a year or two I was really hooked. Remember, not everyone who smokes is a true addict, just as not everybody who drinks is an alcoholic. I am a true addict, however. And it is quite true that nicotine addiction is the worst addiction there is. Fortunately, the medical establishment now recognizes that. For many, many years, smoking was classified only as a "habit" by the WHO, so practically no research was done. The worst thing about nicotine addiction is that you can continue craving nicotine for years after you have quit smoking. No other drug addiction is like that. Did I have any sense at all, when I started smoking, that it could be hazardous to my health? No, none. (Neither, needless to say, did my mother.) But in time, common sense suggested that it was; I didn't need a Surgeon General's Report to tell me that. But by then, I was hooked. jbe