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Originally Posted by Beverly
There isn't anything silly about addiction. Tobacco addiction is said to be as strong as addiction to cocaine  |
You mean the Tobacco Companies LIED to us
Say it isn't so. If you can't trust the TOBACCO COMPANIES, who can you trust
My dad was a 2 pack/day smoker (from Malaysia where almost everyone smokes) until his doctor showed him X-rays of his lungs & told him to say "good-bye" to his family because he'd be dead in 6 months. Quit Cold Turkey right there & then. That was when I was in Gr. 9 & I had just taken Consumer Ed so I wrote out a contract between him & the rest of the family that if any of us ever caught him near a cigarette, even if he was "just holding it for a friend", Dad would have to buy each of us a new car of our choice. Bad news is I never got that new car (@ age 13
), but the best news is he stuck it out.
A month after he quit, we had a dinner party & my uncles came over. I asked my uncle (the Doctor) if he could refrain from smoking around my dad since he was trying to quit & it was literally a life-or-death situation. My #$#@ uncle
took out a cigarette, lit it & blew smoke in my face (I guess he didn't think I had the right to tell him what to do). As a less-than-angelic teen, I got out & filled my water pistol (if only they had SuperSoakers back then) & put out his cigarette for him
That was the most worth-while spanking I ever got
Anthony