“Researchers discover why some smokers addicted with first cigarette”

The title to this post is a headline from the “London Free Press.”

Upon reading this headline, I immediately thought of the following quote from the ”“Introduction” to the Original “Junk” Manuscript” written by William S. Burroughs.

2. A drug habit is formed instantly, on first use, or at most, after three or four shots.  From this notion derive the stories of people becoming addicts after using a few “headache pills” given them by the Sympathetic Stranger…

And then I laughed.

William S. Burroughs, Junky, 50th Anniversary Definitive Addition, Edited and with an Introduction by Oliver Harris, Appendix 2, “Introduction” to the Original “Junk” Manuscript, pg. 141

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