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No, don't drink whiskey or beer, although I gave them both a "run for the money" when in school. Never did learn to appreciate the taste and finally became convinced a hangover wasn't worth the price. Never smoked because I was always envolved in a lot of demanding athletics and always wondered how others could smoke and continue to participate at a high level. No doubt tobacco had a lot to do with early commerce, medical issues were unknown and no doubt the addictive properities fueled an expanding market. In the forties and fifties, the media constantly promoted smoking with sustained exposure thru movies, movie stars, advertising and even the government encourged smoking by providing cigarettes to the GI's. However today we know the adverse effects, and I just don't believe that growing this product should be encourged. On another forum I posted my family's rather poor experience with this product. In brief, my smoking father died from lung cancer. My smoking grandmother, grandfather, and mother all died from emphysema. My smoking brother is on oxygen with severe emphysema, and will need a lung transplant to survive much longer. Really don't want hard working individuals to starve/suffer, but also haven't much sympathy for tobacco growers either.
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