During my 49 years on this planet I think I?ve done just about every drug there is.
Yet I find that I never became ?hooked? on any of the so called Hard Drugs!
Yet I AM still a drug addict!
What?s the drug that I?m addicted to you ask?
Nicotine, ironically one of the two LEGAL drugs I do. (Caffeine being the other)
I remember hearing stories when I was growing up about drug pushers.
?Here KID, this is FREE? Then once they get you hooked?.
I think cigarettes were about 25 cents a pack when I first started smoking. Now they are over $5.00 a lot of places. THIS is the drug dealer they should have warned us about when we were kids! Or sure we were warned. ?Smoking is a filthy habit.? nothing about the health consequences, not way back in the 60?s. But boy they sure warned us about every other drug!! ?Don?t smoke pot.? Speed KILLS? ?Heroin KILLS? take your pick.
Having DONE other drugs, I can assure you that THIS is the most addictive drug there is! And now that I?m good and hooked, who get?s the lion share of the money I pay to feed my habit? Good old Uncle Sam is my guess. My thoughts on the subject of THIS addiction is that no matter what the government say?s, it wants us to keep smoking so it can keep getting our $$$. Aren?t there free programs to kick other drug habits? I don?t know of any government sponsored quit smoking programs. (Though there may very well be some)
For the first several years I smoked I was SURE that I could quit ANY TIME I WANTED. Then one day I woke up and realized that I couldn?t! I was HOOKED.
My advice to ALL you young folks out there. If you don?t smoke, don?t start! If you DO smoke, quit RIGHT NOW!!!! Do it before you, like I are hooked and can?t see anyway out!!! (well maybe I?m being to hard on myself, I suppose I could quit. But take it from me, it?s DAMN hard. And the longer you smoke, the harder it gets!)
QUIT NOW! QUIT TODAY!!
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