Posted on 06/23/2010 4:51:50 PM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
Kim Jong-il Lights Up Again
North Korean leader Kim Jong-il has apparently taken up smoking again after kicking the habit following a massive stroke in August 2008, South Korean government sources say.
An ashtray sits at Kim's right hand in a Korean Central News Agency photograph showing the dictator at a football stadium in North Pyongan Province on Saturday. "If a stroke patient smokes again, the chances of a relapse increase," said one neurologist. And for diabetics like Kim "smoking can cause heart disease by damaging blood vessels," he added. Kim apparently underwent heart surgery around May 2007.
![]() In this undated photo released Saturday by the [North] Korean Central News Agency, North Korean leader Kim Jong-il visits a newly built football stadium in North Pyongan Province. /KCNA-Yonhap |
"Kim Jong-il apparently smoked Marlboro cigarettes and drank pink champagne at dinner with Hyundai Group chairwoman Hyun Jeong-eun in August last year," said one government official. "It looks like Kim Jong-il started smoking again around the first half of last year."
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I did it cold turkey and didnt tell anyone.
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Likewise...just had a new grandkid, new truck etc so ...
I was such a good, well rounded ‘drunk’, it took my wife almost 6 months to realize I wasn’t drinking.
Drink that much and you are loaded virtually 24/7, always with a light buzz and surely over the ‘limit’.
Can probably correctly state that my kids never saw me completely ‘sober’ till oldest was 25....
Not ‘proud’ of it, just saying....
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