You know, I fully meant to stop posting on this topic, but the article in today's Strib (Thursday, 6/10/04) about the HCMC patient winning the right to smoke in the hospital in a court decision yesterday just got my what is left of my brain squirming to get back to the subject. I'm a longtime suffer of depression and a former smoker who is surprised when other folks don't have the same experience of climbing the walls for months to a year like I did post quitting; it would seem that folks suffering from depression of various types and schizophrenia are in a whole different boat as far as brain chemistry. That tidbit alone could explain the kind of intensity behind this debate asside from the Libertarian angles, and why a depressed old ex-smoker like me finds himself on the anti-ban side. Perhaps the smokers who oppose the proposed bans would prefer a new sort of business catering to the legal vices craved from the dawn of human kind; we could call them vice asylums or something more colorful and less descriptive of the problemâthe unique brain chemistry to think of smoking as necessary in one's life. Bill Kahn Prospect Park REMINDERS: 1. Think a member has violated the rules? Email the list manager at [EMAIL PROTECTED] before continuing it on the list. 2. Don't feed the troll! Ignore obvious flame-bait.
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