XPost: sci.electronics.design   
   From: AtTheEndofMyRope@AtTheEndofMyRope.org   
      
   On Tue, 12 Apr 2011 19:19:03 -0500, John KD5YI    
   wrote:   
      
   >So true. I'm glad I gave up tobacco years ago. Life is much easier,   
   >screen wise anyway.   
      
      
     Smoking began at age ten, 1970.  It was Camel and Pall Mall non-filter.   
   REAL cigarettes.  I smoked those and Marlboro for a few years, and my   
   habit got to be two packs a day, and I smoked 'em!   
      
     I tried Kool for a short time, but I switched to Winston and never   
   stopped smoking those at a rate of 2 packs a day all the way until 1987.   
   A full 17 years.  I was getting sick of them.  50% of all smokers are   
   allergic to it, and fought through it not even knowing.   
      
     I quit, cold turkey that week.  I have never picked them up since.   
   Tobacco free since '87. Nearly a quarter of a century, and soon to be so.   
   I cycle a large number of miles every day, Lots of fun, and hardly all   
   that tiring, but I wont mention the number so it doesn't blow John's   
   pathetic numer0logical position.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)