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To: SheLion
Hardcore tobacco users, like any addict, are not going to quit because a doctor tells them it can kill them or because a drug store quits selling cigarettes.

This just shows this doctor (Dr. Vernon Daly ) knows very little about addiction.

Tobacco user, like alcoholics and drug addicts (which alcoholics really are) use their drug of choice because they CHOOSE to.No amount of scare tactics,pleading, threats,
programs, etc. will make them stop until they choose NOT to light a smoke, pick up a drink, etc.
13 posted on 09/23/2002 2:11:52 PM PDT by philetus
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To: philetus
This just shows this doctor (Dr. Vernon Daly ) knows very little about addiction.

You don't know much about addiction either, it appears.

Tobacco is legal. It it were an "addictive drug" as you suggest, it would not have been made legal hundreds of years ago. They would have kept it secret like opium and the like. I have had non-smoking girl friends who can not get up in the morning without their Pepsi. Talk about addiction!

23 posted on 09/23/2002 3:36:39 PM PDT by SheLion
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To: philetus
What about coffee drinkers? Can't get moving in the mornings without coffee? I have to have my coffee in the morning before I have anything.

And what about that fat man taking the Fast Food chain to court because he is addicted to their food and it made him gain 300 lbs? Addiction comes in all colors.

25 posted on 09/23/2002 3:40:23 PM PDT by SheLion
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