I believe that Dr Hurt's Blog is harmful to some of the people who are fighting this addiction. I see irony in the fact that his name is Hurt!
A gentleman name Mike excersized his right to Free speech, and disagreed with the position that many of us staked out after reading Dr. Hurt's blog! About 240 years ago certain of our ancestors flung powder and shot in the name of Freedom! Such points as they won, gives this man the right to do that. I wholeheartedly support that right! And I recognize it for what it is! However when anyone, and most everyone, excersized their right of Free speech to disagree with him, the view changed! He stated " ....to be a free thinker here can carry with it some strange consequences." So it would seem that his right to Free speech(and Free thinking) is sacred! And everyone who fails to bow to his thoughts are hurling strange consequences at him! What kind of arrogance does it take to insult everyone else's ability to think? Are there consequences for arrogance? One consequence would be the shattering of a deafening silence!
One parting thought! If you are buying into any of what Dr.Hurt was shoveling yesterday, and think you may have genes that make quitting almost impossible, I have a challenge for you! Walk into a hospital room where someone is dying from a horrible, and painful disease caused by a genetic predisposition, and tell that person this: "I am just like you! I am dying because I have a genetic predisposition that makes it to hard for me to quit smoking."
