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\"Dr.
Dr. Sam Christian<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

If looks could thrill!<\/span><\/p>\n

We gazed at each other throughout the conference. I was all but 18, representing the National Youth Council at that International Labour Organization-sponsored conference at the Fort Young Hotel. She looked at least thirty, a mature, attractive participant with gorgeous eyes only for me \u2013 at least that what my raging adolescent hormones were screaming.<\/p>\n

The moment the conference wound up, I was at her side as if drawn by a powerful, unseen magnet. My heart was pounding wildly as we chatted and strolled toward the public library. The shimmering crystal Caribbean Sea extended far beyond the picturesque Roseau harbour. Hand in hand, we beheld the enchanted sun as it was slowly and sensuously swallowed up the hungry horizon.<\/p>\n

Six o\u2019clock? Oh gosh man! I had to go. I had another appointment I just could not miss. But like a new batsman at the crease, I was hoping to at least get off the mark before close of play. Just a peck on the cheek would have been the cherry on top an incredible day. Instead she seized my head with both hands and planted a deep, wet kiss\u2026<\/p>\n

Sounds like too much information, doctor. \u00a0You think? Well, perhaps not if you consider where this is leading. So let\u2019s tiptoe back to the intrigue unfolding under that big tree in the yard of the library: Maybe it wasn\u2019t quite a six, but for a fraction of a second it felt like I had definitely hit a boundary. Either way, it was as if I had died and gone to heaven! Um\u2026maybe not my first kiss, but it definitely was my first kiss like that.<\/p>\n

Then I took the taste. It was a sickeningly stale cigarette flavour. My mouth filled instantly with nauseous spittle. I recoiled in hasty retreat. She was like, whoy! Where you going so fast? But I managed to tear myself away. I was outta there \u2013 all the while mumbling profuse apologies. Whenever I glanced back, she was still there, longing. With gushing smiles, we sneaked little promising waves to each other. But as soon as I rounded the corner by Peeple\u2019s Park, I emptied my mouth and gasped for fresh air.<\/p>\n

Oh well, she probably thought I was just \u2018fahwoosh;\u2019 the one that got away. To this day she has no idea why I avoided her – and don\u2019t you dare tell her the truth. I wouldn\u2019t want to hurt her feelings. But when it comes to my patients, my Hippocratic oath allows me no choice but to prescribe the truth, as best as I know how.<\/p>\n

In practice in Ohio, I once had a few-hours encounter with a 50-year old electrician patient. He had divorced and moved to New York where he established a new family. Having contracted terminal lung cancer, his doctors advised him to get his affairs in order.\u00a0 So he took one last trip back to Ohio to bid farewell to his first family. While there, his lung collapsed and I had to insert a chest tube in the ICU. Somehow, I had to fight his insurance company to arrange a long dangerous trip back to second family. During our time together he was on the verge of tears, \u201cI only smoked a pack a day and look at me now: I just started to live and I\u2019m dying of lung cancer. If only I knew\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n

Well, people know. Everybody knows the Marlboro Man<\/strong><\/a>, that ruggedly handsome cowboy, died from smoking…and his replacement, and the next one and the one after that. The only way cigarette companies can stay in business is to ensure that they replace each dead smoker. And they are not too picky from where, once the new smoker is agreeable to paying for it. I shudder to think that in my youth, I was tempted to model my behaviour on the really cool guys at dances who had a cigarette in one hand, a beer in another, jamming to the music as they checked out the chicks. I have smoked 9 cigarettes in my life, each time on a date with smoker. I can no longer suppress that memory and now tell my patients that it will never get into double figures.<\/p>\n

There is no excuse, really. Stress, they say. It relaxes me – actually not. The half-life of nicotine is 2 hours. As the concentration decreases in the system, craving reaches fever pitch. That is the definition of nicotine addiction. That is why smokers will get up in the middle of the night to suck in their fix. That is why cigarettes command attention first thing upon waking up in the morning. Believers are in the habit of offering thanks and praise to the Almighty as the \u2018first fruits\u2019 of their day. Would it be logical to say that one cannot do both things first?<\/p>\n

Domestically, the United States has acted aggressively and with measurable success to decrease cigarette smoking. Statistics show that from 1990 to 2002, U.S. cigarette consumption dropped by 20.0 percent, or by about 1.7 percent per year. Great job! However US trade policy has been equally aggressive and successful in exporting death to developing countries. According to the World Health Organization, the top 5 cigarette consuming countries in 1970 were Cuba, the US, Switzerland, Canada and Britain. By 1992 it was Greece, Japan, Poland, Hungary and South Korea. Africa and the Caribbean are being pushed rapidly up that dubious ladder as well.<\/p>\n

Abigail Trafford, Health Editor<\/b><\/a> for the Washington Post, asks the really big question, \u201cWhy do industrialized countries blame developing countries for growing crops the West deems evil, while insisting on exporting the tobacco products into those same countries?\u201d<\/p>\n

Smokers freshen up like everybody else and think they smell as pleasant as the morning dew on the petals of a flower. Ha! At the end of the day, neither the authorities nor purveyors of addictive substances can be trusted to get people over their addictions. Experience has shown that they will say one thing and with a wink and a nod, permit or do the exact opposite. In one sense, smoking is so pass\u00e9, so old fashioned; yet in Dominica, way too many people still smoke. Yes, addictions we have with us always. But help is at hand medically and otherwise. What really matters is for you and me to stay free. \u00a0Furthermore, words fail to describe the unspeakable joy we experience by helping others<\/b><\/a>\u00a0crush this deadly habit.<\/p>\n

I thought she was smoking hot;<\/span><\/p>\n

Then discovered she was not;<\/span><\/p>\n

Tried so manly to be cool,\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Almost ended up a fool.<\/span><\/p>\n

Never taking up the habit;<\/p>\n

Never having then to quit.<\/p>\n

Striking now a blow for freedom,<\/p>\n

Helping others overcome<\/a>.<\/b><\/p>\n

Dr. Sam Christian runs the Urgent Care on 137 Bath Road. It provides prompt medical treatment, surgery and acupuncture. He is Medical Adviser to the Dominica Cancer Society, radio host of the Medical Minute, and author of the faith and fitness nutrition book, \u2018Mannafast Miracle.\u2019 Dr. Christian can be reached anytime at 440-9133, 615-8345 or by writing to\u00a0<\/b>urgentcare.da@gmail.com<\/b><\/a>.<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If looks could thrill! We gazed at each other throughout the conference. I was all but 18, representing the National Youth Council at that International Labour Organization-sponsored conference at the Fort Young Hotel. 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