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Giving up Tobacco and Alcohol

Anyone who has been a long-term smoker of cigarettes and a drinker of alcohol will know the harmful effects of these non-essential items of consumption on the physical body, and I as a graduate in Pharmacology was no exception. Nonetheless, in my youth I smoked and drank quite excessively.


When I got married however in 1985 I gave up smoking altogether and only drank alcohol socially.


From the time in 1998 that I lost my job in science and was reduced to poverty, the cost of tobacco and alcohol was another factor in giving up both cigarettes and alcohol for a very long period of time in years. It got to a point that I could not then even tolerate the smell of cigarettes from passive smoking the smoke of others.


Then I became embroiled in legal proceedings that intensified and I was persecuted by the powers that be of…


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Givng up tobacco was easier said than done: after 34 hours absitnence I started smoking again. Perhaps I need psychotherapy from the Medway Council No Smoking Unit. I will contact them soon,

Doctors manage patients

In my estimation having been in the hands of Doctors and Psychiatrists for 20 years continuously doctors know nothing of value. They do a job managing people as patients and treat them with medications that they know nothing about routinely to push the paperwork. The National Health System is a monolith institution but is interlinked with industry by way of having to provide sick notes in the United Kingdom so that those who have incurable disorders are then able to request sick notes which by law compels the emploer to pay the patient sick pay. This of course the government tries to avoid. So the doctor being an agency of the govervment has to judge carefully which patient should be issued with sick notes, especially if the patient has to go off sick long term.


So the doctor is put to the test with what little knowledge he or she…


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