Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84 exptools; site ihuxl.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!ihuxl!elron From: elron@ihuxl.UUCP (Gary F. York) Newsgroups: net.med Subject: Re: Smoking, Starting Message-ID: <1628@ihuxl.UUCP> Date: Thu, 19-Sep-85 18:55:08 EDT Article-I.D.: ihuxl.1628 Posted: Thu Sep 19 18:55:08 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 20-Sep-85 06:12:33 EDT References: <274@mot.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories Lines: 31 > Do adults ever start smoking if they've never smoked before? > 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. > > 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 Perhaps there is a lesson somewhere but I'm not sure you have it. I started smoking, lightly, at 21 -- maybe two or three packs a week. I began smoking because I rather thought I might enjoy it. In fact I did enjoy it as long as I did not inhale. Since my motivation was sheer enjoyment rather than peer status I felt no particular need to "learn" to inhale. Though I quit once at 27 to please a girl friend, I began again after our relationship ended. Since, I have avoided dating girls who don't smoke. I still enjoy it. Gary F. York (312) 979-0981 ix 1b455 Bell Labs Naperville, Il. Brought to you by Super Global Mega Corp .com