Article June 26, 1978 ISSUE

Chained to smoking?

JACK HILLMAN THORNTON

Picture a grown man on his knees searching frantically through a trash container for a crumpled package of cigarettes that had been thrown away earlier in a fit of self-discipline. Having located the discarded package, he continues to search for one unbroken, smokable cigarette. Finding one, he quickly lights up and eagerly inhales the toxic fumes.

Does this sound like a passage from a cheap novel? It could well be. At best it is a picture of enslavement. Outright addiction! And, sad to say, one that many people find themselves acting out in varying degrees.

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