Hi Mrs D:

Want to hear something funny!!!! If you ask my friend what the hardest addiction is to get over, she will answer "Alcohol". because her son is 29, stays up in his room, has pancreatitis, possible chirosis of the liver, has been hospitalized numerous times for black outs, put on antibiotics. A pill to stop the cravings, but he just goes right back to it. So her answer would be alcohol".

My other friend's sister is a meth amphetamine addict. So if you ask her what the worst addiction is you will hear "oh, drugs, absolutely".

Then there's my son (Gambling, video came addiction) Addiction to playing Second Life online (do you know that in today's Daily News newspaper, there is an advertisement that says "are you addicted to online games, are you addicted to Second Life??" "If you are, please call this number".

So we now have new addictions to the already growing group of addictions on the roster.

So you have cigarettes, alcohol, gambling, video games, online games, sex, binging. etc.etc.

My goodness. Who's normal any more??

We are inundated with advertisements in the media to eat at Papa Johns, Dominos, and All you can eat Friendly's ..with portions that can choke a cow.

But oddly enough, they stopped advertising Cigarettes in the media and on TV, quite some time ago.

But that didn't do a darn thing. People still smoke.

I wonder why. I used to think it was the tv ads that made people do stuff.

But if there is no advertisement of the product, why do the kids start up in the first place. I understand peer pressure, but really, are kids really that ignorant of the facts???