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...fact is, today's smokers, especially heavy smokers, know that smoking is bad for them, but that knowledge doesn't usually stop them. They develop a sort of split personality when it comes to their bad habit: ask any addict around campus (and there are still quite a few out there, despite enormous social pressures to quit), and he or she will tell you that she pushes the health-hazard right to the back of her mind whenever she smokes...
...Never trust a junkie" is a tired adage, but for the first time in three years, Stone Temple Pilots have proven that faithful fans can occasionally rely on high profile addict Scott Weiland to come through with his talent. Weiland and fellow Stone Temple Pilots Eric Kultz, Dean Deleo and Rob Deleo come close to a superlative creation with their new album, mockingly titled...
...vice, quit smoking too with Harvard Pilgrim Health Care's Freedom from Smoking Program (Harvard Vanguard Medical Association, 1611 Cambridge St.; 731-7311; $75 for members, $85 for nonmembers). The program includes seven 90-minute group sessions where about 14 people explore their reasons for quitting together. Each addict develops a personal plan, which usually involves heavy patch usage. Try the cold turkey group to break the habit together on the third session. Everything is more fun when you have company...
Unfortunately, it is perfectly possible to get good grades and graduate without having learned much of anything, and you don't even have to be an alcoholic or drug addict in order for it to happen. To ignore the Harvard experience, burying yourself in books, boyfriends (or girlfriends) or even (God forbid!) extracurriculars can occur without the use of outside agents...
...sunk under the depressing triple crown of urban degradation: middle-income residents are fleeing at a rate of 1,000 a month; the murder rate has been more than three times as high as New York City's; and 1 of every 10 citizens is a drug addict. Government officials dispute the last claim. "It's more like 1 in 8," says veteran city councilwoman Rikki Spector. "And we've probably lost count...