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Posted by Jason on June 11, 2007, 2:16 am In one article Dr John H Kellogg said "Under the influence of tobacco, the judgement, the will, the conscience, the imagination, even mental and moral faculty are changed- are all nicotinized". I'm sure it wasnt the intention of the Doctor but I find the whole concept of "nicotinzed" to be sexy as hell! I have always been very attracted to and fascinated by bad girls. I guess I always took for granted that bad girls would be more likely to take up smoking to begin with. But I rarely entertained the idea that there is something about smoking itself that leads to more bad behavior. Looking back, this theory makes sense. Through the years I have had the pleasure of knowing a few young women who took up smoking. They were relatively late starters..19-21 years old, often taking up smoking while clubbing. Have you heard the expression "we've suddenly taken up smoking and become very good at it"? That's exactly what these girls did. What I noticed is after these young ladies took up smoking they became "bad" in many other ways. Some started dinking more and going out just about every night, taking drugs, becoming more sexually active, etc. In many ways these women seemed to become "free spirits" after they started smoking. I always figured the partying lifestyle phase led to the smoking, but after reading the articles I'm open to the idea that the smoking led to even more bad behavior. Speaking of impulse control, here in Las Vegas, I see rows of women chain smoking as they play slot machines. It's like they are in a hypnotic trance as they gamble away with cigarette and drink and hand. There is obviously a smoking-gambling connection. There is probably a correlation between smoking and just about every other bad or naughty behavior you can think of. Do smokers have personality traits that lead to other "bad" behaviors or do you think there is such a thing as a "nicotinzed brain" that causes a loss of impulse control? My guess is BOTH.
I was reading some anti-smoking medical articles. One topic that caugh my attention was smoking related brain damage. Several articles claimed smoking causes a condition called Abulia...symptoms include impaired willpower, impaired impulse and ethical controls, and moral apathy.
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