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Originally Posted by Everyneurotic
some people here are going to quit because they are putting the ban (and it's jail time for the offenders).
i'm certainly cutting back since i only smoke when i go out, but i still don't feel like quitting. like every sunday, i feel like i had enough for a while and am not craving for a cig.
anyway, best wishes.
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history repeats itself, life is a cycle. when tobacco was introduced from the new world to the old, many people were against it. in some places it carried even the death penalty to possess or distribute. one if the first was King James I who characterized the vile smoke of tobacco as being that "from the pit which is bottom-less" [ie, hades sheol and death]. For a brief period in Ethiopia in the 1880s, smoking tobacco carried the death penalty under Emperor Yohannes
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