Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Pastimes : Don't Ask Rambi -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Ilaine who wrote (26519)	5/29/1999 11:19:00 PM
From: Neocon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71178

The fact that they are "associated" with addiction OR dependence does not touch my querulousness about raising nicotine to the same level as proscribed drugs. And if it were at the same level, why not ban it? As I said, thin science that does not jibe with my personal experience, including the experience of a number of friends and relatives who have quit without special aids, and, I would add, without the kind of withdrawal symptoms associated with heroin withdrawal. This group includes my wife, my mother, a grandmother, a brother, and a number of other friends and remoter relatives....