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From: elron@ihuxl.UUCP (Gary F. York)
Newsgroups: net.med
Subject: Re: Smoking, Starting
Message-ID: <1628@ihuxl.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 19-Sep-85 18:55:08 EDT
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Posted: Thu Sep 19 18:55:08 1985
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>      Do adults ever start smoking if they've never smoked before?

> and I can think of no adults who've started who weren't already hooked!  If you
> make it thru the teen years without becoming addicted, you never will.

> 
>      Kids and teenagers start, adults quit:  There's a lesson here.

> ihnp4!allegra!seismo!terak!mot!edski
> Ed Skinner, Motorola, 2900 S Diablo Way, Tempe Az 85282, (602)438-3064

Perhaps there is a lesson somewhere but I'm not sure you have it.

I started smoking, lightly, at 21 -- maybe two or three packs a week.
I began smoking because I rather thought I might enjoy it.  In
fact I did enjoy it as long as I did not inhale.  Since my motivation
was sheer enjoyment rather than peer status I felt no particular
need to "learn" to inhale.

Though I quit once at 27 to please a girl friend, I began again
after our relationship ended.  Since, I have avoided dating girls
who don't smoke.

I still enjoy it.


Gary F. York
(312) 979-0981
ix 1b455
Bell Labs
Naperville, Il.