Add my name to the list of Parkies who have loss there "sniffer". I too thought my long years of smoking was the culprit, however I gave up the weed in 1981 and PD didn't surface until 1990. I really can't remember when I lost it, but I can say it was pre-PD. So goes the "sniffer" and so goes the "taster". I hate to think as what goes next! Oh what the hay, I'm still alive, I think...... Jim Ryan 57/7