NOW THAT'S NOT FUNNY

Increase Nicotine = Enhanced Addiction

Editorial
Raising Nicotine Doses, on the Sly
Published: August 31, 2006

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/31/opinion/31thu2.html?ex=1314676800&en=3546324e4...

So NOW will anyone believe me about my NOT BEING ABLE TO QUIT SMOKING. Damn, I'm a drug addict. NOT only am I a drug addict.. I'm a pissed drug addict...

I'm pissed at maurading non-smoking crusaders who think getting Big Brother to pass laws about where I can smoke will stop me. Again, the care, concern, and sympathy is not about or for the smoker - they cry about second hand smoke, and the children. While true, second hand smoke and the children are not the root of the smoking problem - IT'S A DAMN DRUG ADDICTION

I'm pissed at myself for being so stupid for so very long... and pissed at myself for even beginning to smoke... BUT IT REALLY DOESN'T HELP BEING PISSED

I'm pissed at the tobacco companies, but tobacco companies are made up of people who make decisions... who are these MFers... I want names, specific names...

I'm pissed at the states. All the tobacco settlement money the states got... HOW DOES THEM (the states and their lawyers) GETTING ALL THAT MONEY HELP ME? IT DOESN'T

SO, where is my life-time supply of nicotine patches?

The states are still collecting taxes off of tobacco sales, well aren't they?

I want to quit smoking. Tobacco companies have been delibrately increasing the addictiveness of their product, and this is not criminal?

I've been made to feel like I was an inferior human being by all these do-gooder marauding non-smoking crusaders because I couldn't JUST stop smoking. And as it turns out, I'm not inferior at all... I'm a drug addict. MY drug addiction is the result of manipulation... corporate manipulation of an addictive additive to tobacco. My addiction to nicotine is fueled by the greed of individuals who profit from the production, sale, and distribution of tobacco products that have had the nicotine content purposely enhanced.

I'm just so pissed... and what do I want right now... coffee and a cigarette, of course.

Damn