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armchairlinguist
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 Posted - 03/14/2007 : 14:35:54
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This is kind of along the same lines as alexis's Michiko and Masako thread, but a bit different.
I read an interesting article in Salon today, "Screw you for not smoking" (http://www.salon.com/mwt/feature/2007/03/14/traister_smoking/index.html -- you have to watch an ad to read unless you subscribe, sorry!), a recounting of staff writer Rebecca Traister's experiences after she stopped smoking. She got a "pinched nerve", bad skin and dandruff, strep throat, pinkeye, and a really bad stomach flu, among other things. All that could certainly be accounted for by either bad luck or physiological changes that accompany the transition, but as I read it I wondered if maybe TMS could be playing a role too. After all, a lot of people use smoking as a stress-relief mechanism, and it seems she did; she writes:
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Saddest was that I was unable to recover from these malfunctions of female grace with a contemplative cigarette.
Maybe without that mechanism, her inner rage reservoir started overflowing.
Discussion welcomed.
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Rebecca Traister's post-smoking maladies, TMS?
