Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site pyuxn.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!floyd!harpo!ulysses!gamma!pyuxww!pyuxn!amg From: amg@pyuxn.UUCP (Alan M. Gross) Newsgroups: net.rumor,net.med Subject: Re: A Coca Cola "thought experiment" Message-ID: <529@pyuxn.UUCP> Date: Wed, 28-Mar-84 16:43:29 EST Article-I.D.: pyuxn.529 Posted: Wed Mar 28 16:43:29 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 30-Mar-84 02:48:49 EST References: <744@eosp1.UUCP>, <46@infopro.UUCP> Organization: Bell Communications Research, Piscataway N.J. Lines: 11 I claim I am addicted to caffeine. When I exercise the willpower to break the addiction, I suffer a couple of days of headaches, and then I a free of the addiction. The addiction is not strong, as with heroin or cigarettes. I know I can break it because I have done so several times. However it is an addiction and not simply a question of willpower. Alan Gross pyuxn!amg