I finally gave up when they killed my father (another CIO and FDR man). I had "quit" many, many times and shifted from cigarettes to cigars to pipes and back and forth. Also, I put cigarette ads around a picture of Jesse Helms over by my regular easy chair, where I did most of my serious stinking up of the house.
When I got down to it, it wasn't really so bad. I highly recommend the gum. Like Carrol, I've never looked back. It's been ten years and, although I haven't been able to avoid putting on weight, I'd rather have to deal with that the effects of smoking. Ditto the Democrats. Only, unlike tobacco, they don't necessarily kill the user...though the Democratic equivalent of second-hand smoke can be seen across Iraq and Afghanistan. A hell of a price to make young people pay for your addictions.... ML
