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  Barry,
  
  Like it or not mankind since it developed has chosen to get 'out of it's head' on occasion.
  
  Originally from plants ingested one way or the other, then from alcohol.
  
  As a teacher I tell my pupils that the most dangerous 'drug' is alcohol. I take it on occasion. It is responsible for deaths, absence from work,breakdown of relationships and on occasion death. (+ Until I did a spell-check it buggers up your typing!)
  
  Most pupils/people think that Heroin(or its derivatives) are dangerous. They are not as long as one knows what strength one is taking. A dull life I think, an the other hand many Jazz musicians have survived on it for many years (Miles Davis for example). Withdrawal is no worse than flu - methodone a joke. (See Theodore Dalrymle - Romancing Opiates)
  
  Yes, tobacco is bad. (I speak as a pipe smoker!). But on the scale of things that we should discourage people from doing I think it's fairly low.
  
  Every day when I'm cycling back from the school at which I am employed part time I stop off (Unless it's pissing down) and sit on a style in the middle of the cycle route from Sandwich to Deal and contemplate 'stuff' smoking my pipe.
  
  
  Right, off for a nicotine fix (which in some eyes makes me a bad person). Catch you later.......

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