Sound and Cold Weather

[SeaHorse_Fanatic]

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