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ETS!,

The thing with nicotine is that it's a powerful neurotransmitter; feeds the same receptors that cocaine feeds.

Nicotine has been used to "treat" Torette Syndrome since around the 1930s. It has a sedative effect; aids in digestion.

People say smoking is an "oral" fixation...well, cigarettes are designed to go in the mouth (aka ORAL cavity)...and it's a good thing, too. Think of the problems, otherwise.

One of my many lovely daughters works as an RN on the oncology floor of a major Seattle hospital which is hyped nationwide for being on the leading edge of cancer research/treatment. She told me that the only people at-risk for lung cancer are tall, balding white males...she said that's what they get where she works. This explained the Stranger, some questions I'd had. She told me a lot of stuff, the kind you never see in the media...scary stuff about doctors and creativity. It made sense to me that one way to be powerful is to create a problem which only a few know the ins and outs of, etc. If that can be called "power."

She told me it's like my letterhead logo says; that the medical researchers need bodies (living) so they can try out their new toys and that so many people are SOOOOOO suggestible, fall right into it (faster than "buying into it").

She told me more than that. If I were a paranoid peson, I would be screaming in terror now. Speaking of conspiracy theories.

I have ADHD...was medicated for three years or so. I did a lot of reading, medical publications and such; asked a lot of questions of a lot of people. There's this one gene...the "creative" gene--on that genetic spectrum runs ADH, Tourette, bi-polar and autism. I think that's the right order...maybe bi-polar and Tourette are the other way around. I STRONGLY encourage anyone who is struggling with addictions (which also go hand-in-hand on that gene) to NOT try to "kill your addict"...find another job for your addict. "Kill your addict"...kill yourself, your imagination/creative gene-ius. Not very caring.

I have been watching the essays in the Stranger, wondering how long it would be before the writers began clueing in, whatever. I don't write what I know (from experience/research) because I am a terrible essay- writer although I can write a good letter...and because it's not my job to write those essays...and also...in some ways and without being the least bit ego-overinflated, if I wrote all I know then there would be little remaining for others to write about. I think it's important for young people to have a clear field in which to make their own discoveries.

The insurance industry is another can of worms which needs attention; it's interesting to me, how people who have insurance (medical) tend to get sick. It makes sense, though...people like to USE what they are paying for...but also, by having the insurance the person has made the (unconscious) agreement that s/he will be sick and will need the insurance. I notice with myself that when I have had insurance, I've gotten sick. When I have had none, I remain well. Don't even ask me about car insurance. I am not paying high rates just because some guy in his dad's red sports car racked up a string of accidents and moving violations. I am not driving now anyhow...it's no fun anymore.

Thank you for printing the letters I sent...and thank you for editing them, too. I actually am able to edit, myself, but was not writing for publication; I am writing to you because I have something to say. Thank you also for not editing my letters so that they said something way different from what I wrote.

Norm Maleng used to be Insurance Commissioner. Personally, without ever having met the man himself, I have thought that perhaps his daughter's horrible, brutal, violent death (1980s) maybe twisted him a bit too much.

I am still working on the problem of my cousin, Margaret Ann (Pageler); am waiting on some family gene-ology material which my daughter up North is storing for me; she is presently in Indiana.

It's nice that that ugly camel is gone; I personally prefer my camels to wear a red rez. More, later.