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I'm reminded of the opening sentence in one section of my undergraduate physical psychology textbook: "The amount of nicotine in one cigarette, if injected directly into the bloodstream, would kill a person." Scott >===== Original Message From Parkinson's Information Exchange Network <[log in to unmask]> ===== >What is so hard to understand here??? Nicotine is a great poison .... it >even works on the nasty bugs in our gardens ... are we so adicted to >being "practiced " upon that we have to try another angle to introduce more >toxins into our bodies. Levodopa by it self is a heck of a trade off .... >we get rid of some short term, annoying, or embarising symptoms so that we >can do the dyskenesia dance later on?? Time to wake up and be thankful >that we are not battling the big C or some other equally teminal malady. >They symptoms may be difficult, but there are other ways to deal with Mr. >Parkinson and still enjoy and be thankful for our life experiences without >introducing more toxins. I wouldn't give nicotine to my service dog, George, >either! > >"drink upstream from the herd" ..... Rob Scott E. Antes Department of Anthropology Northern Arizona University Flagstaff, AZ 86011-5200 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: mailto:[log in to unmask] In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn