OK I'll bite. I've smoked tobacco and marijuana for
much of my adult life, and have done my fair share of
alcohol abuse. I hardly drink at all these days, and
haven't smoked tobacco for about a year. I've come to
recognise that I'm an addictive personality, and tend
to go over the top when I get into a new interest. Its
only within the last year or so after coming
frighteningly close to losing my wife to my addictions
that I have started to make a real effort to pace
myself.
We know that Joni was no stranger to drugs in her
younger days. I can easily believe that she chooses to
continue to use tobacco simply because she knows she
would need something stronger to fill the void if she
were to give it up.
Cheers, Ian
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> This may be, for you old-timers, worn territory.
> But, I have often wondered
> why Joni feels it so necessary to ingrain the fact
> that she smokes so
> indelibly into her public persona. It has always
> struck as ironic that
> someone, who is capable of such wisdom and
> fortitude, and celebrates in verse
> her phoenix-like ascensions from numerous life
> struggles - finds it so
> compelling to advertise a personal habit that is so
> potentially self
> destructive. Any thoughts?
> TIA, Artheo
> NP - "Smoke, Smoke, Smoke (That Cigarette)", by:
> Commander Cody & the Lost
> Planet Airmen
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