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From: edski@mot.UUCP (Ed Skinner)
Newsgroups: net.med
Subject: Smoking, Starting
Message-ID: <274@mot.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 17-Sep-85 18:36:00 EDT
Article-I.D.: mot.274
Posted: Tue Sep 17 18:36:00 1985
Date-Received: Tue, 17-Sep-85 21:22:21 EDT
Organization: Motorola Microsystems, Phoenix AZ
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     Do adults ever start smoking if they've never smoked before?

     I recently quit (two months "clean" after twenty-five years of smoking)
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.
     Please note that I don't count anyone who hasn't smoked "for a long time"
and then starts again - Nicotene addiction is permanent:  It doesn't matter if
the addiction is physical, or psychological, or anything else.  It's real, and
it lasts forever.  Even if you quit, you're still an addict.

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