Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 beta 3/9/83; site mot.UUCP Path: utzoo!utcs!mnetor!mot!edski 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 Lines: 16 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. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ihnp4!allegra!seismo!terak!mot!edski Ed Skinner, Motorola, 2900 S Diablo Way, Tempe Az 85282, (602)438-3064 Brought to you by Super Global Mega Corp .com