Genetic link to tobacco addiction found? -- Diseases, Newsday

not so fast with this genetic hockus pockus...my father and mother smoked heavily in the 1950's. both died from heart disease. I could never stand the smell of cigarette smoke, and for that reason alone I have never smoked

it wasn't me - it was my genes! how about accountability and responsibility?- i smoked for 12 years, quit cold turkey - cut the crap. stop smoking. accept the responsibility and get it done. no one else is at fault or is to blame that a person smokes.

not even the tobacco companies!

Oh this is good news for smokers, maybe they can use the "disability act" to protect the from discrimination!!!

More anti-tobacco nonsense from the world of "science."

Both my parents smoked, I do not. Had I started smoking, they would of admonished me for smoking (while smoking themselves).

smoke all you want - just don't blame anyone or anything else when you can't quit - it's called willpower

I just passed the 20-year anniversary of stopping smoking. I did the Smokenders program with the home version (i.e., I didn't attend any meetings). It worked like a charm, I went from 2 packs a day to nonsmoker status in about 5 weeks in 1988. I don't hear about Smokenders any more, and don't know if it's still around, but I give the program credit for helping me stop. I've never had a single craving, even once.

Both of my parents smoked when the commercials used to say that it was "good for you" and both of my parents quit. My father quit after seeing a man in a hospital with throat cancer and my mother after many years just deciding one day to quit and she did.

My dad used to smoke cigarettes, had an occasional cigar and also had a pipe collection and used them all.

My brother and I have never smoked anything and never had any desire to.

Cigarettes smell bad and make you smell bad and I am also allergic to the cigarette smell.

My father is still alive and well and going on 85 years old. My mom passed away, but it didn't have anything to do with her past cigarette smoking.

Figures, it's just like modern American society to give every weak individual an 'out' so they don't have to accept any responsibility for their actions. Maybe if these 'poor smokers' are compromised by this 'bad gene' we should give them handicap status so they can park closer to the store to buy more cigarettes.
This, of course, is nonsense. I smoked for 11 years and quit with one laser therapy session and a little willpower. No one (and nothing) made me smoke but me. No one but me was responsible for quitting. There can be no room in society for 'forgiving' smokers, fat people, drinkers and drug addicts of their personal weaknesses based on some genetic hocus pocus.

If one has never smoked are they still addicted if they have the genetic makeup for the addiction?
See where I'm going here? Don't do it and you'll never be addicted.
I might be the world's biggest heroin addict but if I never do it then I have nothing to worry about.

Frank wrote:

If one has never smoked are they still addicted if they have the genetic makeup for the addiction?
See where I'm going here? Don't do it and you'll never be addicted.
I might be the world's biggest heroin addict but if I never do it then I have nothing to worry about.

Your comment makes absolutely ZERO sense.

Great, Smokers. Now you can blame your addiction on something other than you're own weakness.

I LOVE TO SMOKE wrote:

The only thing I enjoy more than smoking is smoking around former smokers and their children. In my experience there is no bigger a s s h o l e than a former smoker. And I've never met a former smoker who didn't crave a cigarette the moment they saw someone else smoking.
So tell yourselves how strong you are and how much willpower you have. I KNOW that you are full of s h i t.

I may be full of crap but I am a non-smoker. After smoking for 35 years, I stopped smoking ten years ago. Both of my parents did not smoke.

LOL wrote:

smoke all you want - just don't blame anyone or anything else when you can't quit - it's called willpower

also do not use a dime of my tax money to pay for your huge medical bills which you incur as a result of smoking. If you get cancer from smoking, you get pain pills, and say goodnight...not hundreds of thousands of dollars to prolong your life for stupid actions you took while my kids can't go to a good college because I am paying for you instead of them.

it wasn't me - it was my genes! how about accountability and responsibility?- i smoked for 12 years, quit cold turkey - cut the crap. stop smoking. accept the responsibility and get it done. no one else is at fault or is to blame that a person smokes.