AJ_ wrote:
I take your point 8, and I probably wouldn't usually described it as a disorder either. I only did on this occasion as I was talking about the relationship between it and drinking disorders, and that in that sense they are related disorders.
Not sure what things are like in the US, I'm from Australia. Bunch of smoking-nazis over here.
Ah, sorry for wrongly assuming your country. It's becoming the same here too, AJ, although while the ban on smoking in indoor public places is forcing rural pubs to close by the hundreds nationally each week now, I do much prefer most places smoke-free (even as a smoker).
The funny thing is, our little village local is pretty near-empty until just before 'closing' time. Then it mysteriously fills up, the doors are locked, the lights are dimmed, and it's a busy little pub again, because it's legally a 'private party' and so the ashtrays can now come out
I don't like this medic-speak much (I don't mean on this thread, I mean within the medical community). It's like once they put a label on something their job is done. And describing addiction to an extremely highly addictive substance as a 'disorder'? I reckon it should be 'natural order of addiction after sufficient exposure to this highly addictive substance' or somesuch!
Lo0p wrote:
Just being a citizen over here is a diagnosable disorder I think.
Oh my goodness, haven't laughed so hard for ages my friend, thank you!
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