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Originally Posted by Serenoa
And I would hazard a guess that it was an intentional miss. It was just another lame attempt to justify what the smokers have got to know is WRONG. Until it's made illegal some will continue to smoke wherever they damn well please, regardless if it offends or puts other's health at risk. Their so-called "right" to pollute the air trumps anything & everything.
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At least twenty years ago I read that nicotine is seven times as addictive as heroine. In one study nicotine was administered in droplets under the tongue. The people tested, who apparently had used drugs and knew the effects of cocaine, thought that the nicotine was cocaine. Thus, nicotine is powerful stuff and it is notoriously extremely addictive. Smokers who quit experience withdrawal symptoms and continue to crave a tobacco fix for many years afterward, as we all know only too well.
I have observed and smelled smokers sneaking smokes where they are not supposed to, such as in airport bathrooms, and where it can be quite dangerous for themselves as well as others, such as while filling their vehicles's gas tanks at service stations. I have known two smokers dying of lung cancer who had their oxygen tents shut down so they could sneak smokes in their hospital beds! Hospital rules, the law and safety be d*mned!