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    Some interesting local news.

    One woman, a patient of 25 years and a heavy smoker transferred her records in outrage only to return this summer asking to be taken back.

    “She’d quit. It was a tearful reunion,” Ross said.

    “When I came up with the ultimatum . . . I wasn’t being the Darth Vader of medicine, telling people to get out of my practice,” he explained to Canadian Press in a recent story. “I was saying if you’re not even interested in trying (to quit smoking) . . . find another doctor if you don’t want to be a partner with me in your health.”
    Read the rest of the article though, it is interesting.

    I just happened to take the best part.
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    Dr. Mark Taylor needs to get a grip.
    “There are drawbacks to the type of tactics he used that trouble me. It’s wrong to blame smokers for their addiction.”
    It's wrong to blame smokers? There's probably 5 people alive that started smoking before we knew how addictive it was. Everybody else went in eyes open.
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    • #3
      When the person starting is a ten year old girl, and studies show addiction occurs within 3 weeks for females, I think it's time to start blaming those who make the drug available. If it were in my power, I would burn alive every executive and board member from every tobacco company.. burn them until they are the ashes they make of their victims.

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        When the person starting is a ten year old girl, and studies show addiction occurs within 3 weeks for females, I think it's time to start blaming those who make the drug available.
        And who gave them to a 10 year old? That's illegal. And since cigarette machines are all but phased out, then somebody sold/gave them to her. You could say the same thing about alcoholic 8 year olds, do those execs deserve to be picked or something?
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        • #5
          And how many smoking parents leave their cigarettes locked in a safe? Fewer than lock their liquor cabinets, and that number is few indeed. Yes, it is the ten year old's fault for trying cigarettes, but for failing to be serious-minded enough to weigh the consequences? That's just natural. There aren't very many ten year olds who posess the wisdom of the ages just yet. Don't you know those execs just love these mischeivous young people? I can't help but laugh at their "public service" ads about not selling to minors.. what a load of insincere, meaningless crap.

          BTW, the addiction stats for cigarettes are far higher than for alcohol. something like 70+ percent in that short three week period. For alcohol, only 15% or so of people who drink EVER become alcoholics. That's not to say it isn't a problem, but what IS the problem is that there is room for natural curiosity, for experimentation. For cigarettes, there really isn't any. The three week period is for girls only.. boys were shown to have signs of addiction after 6 months.. they couldn't explain the difference.. something to do with the female brain, they surmised.

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            That's not to say it isn't a problem, but what IS the problem is that there is room for natural curiosity, for experimentation.
            Unless of course you're an alcoholic, which we've already identified a gene for.

            And if a parent keeps alcohol out of a child's reach, but not cigarettes, they're nuts! Which of these requires fire to be used?
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            • #7
              Now if only marijuana was legal, since it's non-addictive (at least physically, anyone can get addicted to anything mentally, just as a force of habit. For instance, posting to these forums) Cigarettes are second on the addictiveness list only to Heroin.

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              • #8
                Which has nothing to do with anything pertinent to this discussion.

                Marijuana is not a replacement for tobacco. Tobacco cigarettes do not leave you intoxicated.
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                • #9
                  I find that Tobacco serves absolutely no purpose what-so-ever!
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                  • #10
                    Originally posted by ZokesPro
                    I find that Tobacco serves absolutely no purpose what-so-ever!
                    It makes some unethical bastards very rich, while enslaving the young to a life of ill health and addiction for which priviledge they will pay about $5 per day to said unethical bastards. That's its purpose.. and in this way the people who run tobacco companies are no different from Columbian druglords.

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