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Posted by vesperae I get the impression that you are feeling a little defensive about this idea, and are also maybe looking at this a little too macroscopically. Unless someone's mother smoked very heavily while pregnant with her, or unless she grew up with very heavy and concentrated closed space exposure to second hand smoke, thus desensitizing her lungs to inhaling smoke and perhaps even establishing a tolerance to nicotine, I don't think that anyone who doesn't have this history would find smoking easy and pleasurable for at least the few dozen or so attempts at inhaling "real" drags. The point is that even if someone does bring this heavily conditioned history to trying smoking for the first time, and she does have a pleasurable reaction to it, she will inevitably overdo it at some point during her first few cigarettes, and she will have a coughing fit, and get dizzy, and maybe even toss her cookies. Don't you agree that deliberately inhaling a concentrated drag of cigarette smoke all the way into the lungs for the first few dozen times takes a certain amount of will to do it, will that has to be directed against a primitive and deep-seated urge to keep the lungs free of the very things that are being forced on them, and that they are evolutionarily designed to reflexively keep out? Individual circumstance, and perhaps even selective memory (in some cases), varies considerably, but it's the fundamental underlying concept of the will dominating the flesh that I'm talking about here. Does what I'm suggesting make any sense to you? And I'm not the least bit offended by your remarks, because I think of you as a friend of the forum, and to me. * * * * *vesperae
on August 1, 2007, 5:45 am, in reply to "Re: Let's Think Back to Your First Cigarette"
Hi SpyPlane, 
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