[smrtpants]

Originally Posted by emf

Allen Carr died from lung cancer on November 29, 2006. His obituary in the British Medical Journal says "Carr blamed his illness on the decades spent in smoke filled rooms helping others quit." Carr claimed to have helped 25 million smokers to quit and said that if his "illness is the price for that, it’s worth it."

I'm a bit disappointed that such an altruistic, generous, hu-man [and would-be savior for my own self*] would play the 'blame game' card at the end of an obviously successful [with regard to leading others out of the 'shaken and stirred' depths of alcoholism and addiction].

* in the last year i ventured from the land of beer and wine > vanilla vodka [with milk, like a milkshake] > absinthe [with milk, like a green milkshake], as my libation of choice & at least doubled the frequency of imbibition...

"Are you sure that this is a semantically accurate quote", said the pedantic doryphor as she taped the 'dog-eared' pages of her 'diction-book', again...]