an addiction to pocket rockets leads to a less than desired scorching of the lungs which in term, increases the presence of an almost incurable disease that slowly consumes, if not totally assimilating, your body. leading to this, you inevitably, but gradually, ebb away and die. sad, isn't it, how an addiction to nicotine can be so harmful in the long run? the long-term relationship that some people have with one of the most freely available drugs [the other being caffeine] is intriguing...knowing what's totally and irrevocably bad for you, but still going at it...it leaves no room for lament and regret if you keep going at it, right? for the person who says that a pack/stick will be his last, there's always going to be another side of him that tells him otherwise. you can't go cold turkey as experience with some people go, it doesn't quite work out the way you want it to. maybe the proper thing to do would be rehabilitory treatment...nicotine is a drug, and it should be treated like any other drug. long-term plans are good. the plot may yet thicken.

try beating an addiction to anything. i think people who don't understand might be hypocrites, in the sense that they think it's a matter of black and white without grey....but then, maybe it just is. how it holds up in the long run depends on the aforementioned addict...good luck to him, whomever he might be.