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Fri 26 Jan, 2007 11:00 am
This is going to put fear into Philip Morris.
From today's NY Times:
Quote:Scientists studying stroke patients are reporting today that an injury to a specific part of the brain, near the ear, can instantly and permanently break a smoking habit. People with the injury who stopped smoking found that their bodies, as one man put it, "forgot the urge to smoke."
Brain Injury Stops Urge To Smoke
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Huh.
Setanta whacked his head on the side of a kitchen cabinet door last night. Maybe he'll be able to give up the nicotine gum as well?
Maybe you could help him by taping that part of his head with a little hammer.
I think it's very exciting news! I quit smoking over five years ago now?-first try, cold turkey I'm proud to say?-but for the millions addicted to cigarettes and booze and drugs, this is fantastic.
We'll see how the cigarette and liquor industry, not to mention the governments who support these industries ( all of them!) try and squash the continued medical progress of these findings.
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