Does our culture take cigarette addiction seriously enough?
It's time to take nicotine addiction seriously, says long-time smoker Lynn Cunningham.
Lynn Cunningham joins guest host Brent Bambury to argue that nicotine dependence should be taken as seriously as alcoholism and drug addiction. Given the number of people that are hooked and don't want to be, she says, that there are far too few resources and far too many barriers.
The Toronto-based writer and professor also shares her own story, lists the ways smoking has threatened much more than her health, and explains why she resorted to paying for rehab in Minnesota to kick her 50-cigarette-per-day habit.