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I was lucky my pestering of

PeraclesPlease — Tue, 31 Jan 2017 01:20:08 +0000

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I was lucky my pestering of my parents worked, but yeah, horrible war conditions is one thing, but what's driving it now? Sorry yours was so traumatic in any case.

This is hard to write, but my

CVille Dem — Tue, 31 Jan 2017 00:18:22 +0000

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This is hard to write, but my mother, who died at 83, smoked cigarettes to such an extent that her whole house, all of her clothes, and her very skin and hair stank of cigarette stench. I hated to go to her house. I hated to kiss her hello or good-bye. It was repulsively sickening to me. In the end, I decided to bring her to my house and take care of her, regardless of the smoke. When I got to the Assisted Living place, I saw that it was too late for that; she was in a coma. I felt true empathy for the withdrawal she must have been having and I asked that she get nicotine patches. They made her vomit, so that didn't work.

I have memories of driving in a relatively small car from Richmond, Virginia to Atlanta, Georgia with 4 kids in the back seat and 2 chain-smoking adults who insisted that the windows stay up. I can remember lowering the window just a bit to get a breath of air. Of course that was back when anyone who objected to smoking had a "problem" and could just leave the party, the restaurant, or even the theater if they didn't like it.

Thank heavens the tide has turned, but my son smokes, (mainly vapes) but I am so enormously disappointed in this habit that I can't stand it. I was in a Veterans Administation Hospital waiting room with my husband. The stink of cigarettes was so infused into everyone's clothes that we had to move to a class-room to wait.

OK, I get that during war, people smoke to help themselves cope. But the fact that young people are smoking baffles me. They spend all kinds of $$ to dress themselves, to primp themselves up; to look great, but they don't mind looking stupid with a cigarette, and they don't mind stinking either.

I really hate smoking. Oh, BTW, I have mild asthma, which my Dr. Attributes to second-hand smoke.

I certainly didn't watch

PeraclesPlease — Fri, 27 Jan 2017 12:59:30 +0000

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I certainly didn't watch either - this excerpt comes from Samantha Bee's Full Frontal, which for the Donald Turnip years might turn into Full Frontal Lobotomy.

I didn't waste time watching

rmrd0000 — Thu, 26 Jan 2017 23:43:35 +0000

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I didn't waste time watching the inaugural. I'm not surprised by the lyrics, they fit with Trump's view of American justice. Anybody who disagrees with Trump is an enemy.

BTW, off-topic, but did you

PeraclesPlease — Thu, 26 Jan 2017 22:35:32 +0000

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BTW, off-topic, but did you catch the lyrics to Toby Keith's inaugural song?

"Take all the rope in Texas / Find a tall oak tree

Round up all them bad boys hang them high in the street

For all the good people to see"

Yeah, buddy - make America (even Texas) cray again. I guess the one slightly humorous angle is, "do they really have oak trees growing in the middle of the street? won't that like bend fenders on those pickup trucks imported from Mexico?" Oh yeah, and the state that we helped our illegal settlers steal from Mexico, the one that had to secede because Mexico for some reason refused to let them import black slaves there. Guess they got tired of having their rights trampled on.

But speaking of economic injustice and need for class-based solutions....

Depends on which nicotine

PeraclesPlease — Thu, 26 Jan 2017 22:15:22 +0000

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Depends on which nicotine effect:

"At higher doses, nicotine enhances the effect of serotonin and opiate activity, producing a calming, pain-killing effect. Nicotine is unique in comparison to most drugs, as its profile changes from stimulant to sedative/pain killer in increasing dosages and use, a phenomenon described by Paul Nesbitt in his doctoral dissertation[35] and subsequently referred to as "Nesbitt's Paradox".[36]" - wikipedia somewhere.

But anyway, people are saying vaping makes them *more* jittery. And what do the other 1000 or so compounds in cigarettes do... ? which ones kill for pleasure?

Anyway, what is it about cigarettes that produces so much addiction, so much death? It seems like an easy decision to make, yet 1 of 7 people buy into it. If we find a truly safe and satisfying cigarette, will they funnel their self-destructive nature into something else?

The question is are there

rmrd0000 — Thu, 26 Jan 2017 21:44:03 +0000

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The question is are there more effective drugs without the risk of addiction of the jitteriness caused by nicotine.

Most things do.

barefooted — Thu, 26 Jan 2017 00:00:45 +0000

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Most things do.

Sure, but benefits decrease

PeraclesPlease — Wed, 25 Jan 2017 23:26:53 +0000

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Sure, but benefits decrease when you're dead...

Sure there are problems with

EmmaZahn — Wed, 25 Jan 2017 23:19:16 +0000

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Sure there are problems with smoking but then there are Hidden Benefits Of Nicotine on The Brain.