Louis Proyect wrote: >Probably for the same reason so many Russians abused vodka. If you were >living in a society that you had no control over, lived in oppressively >monotonous housing, had no chance of material improvement, wouldn't you >take advantage of every little "kick" that came along? If I'm remembering my stats right, the U.S. has some of the lower smoking numbers in the northern hemisphere. So does that mean we're just the opposite of all these things? Doug
