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Confessions of a smoker: Dave Thune ready to quit (again) 

Jump to full article: pulse of the twin cities, 2009-07-29
Author: SID PRANKE

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Editor's Note: We caught up with St. Paul Council Member Dave Thune, who spearheaded the St. Paul smoking ban, which kicked in about six months ago. We quizzed him about starting to smoke again--at least he was honest ...) . . .

Pulse: A long time ago there was a report out that said it was more difficult to quit smoking than to quit heroin.

Thune: I’ve never been hooked on heroin (laughs), but I’ve heard the same thing. In fact, Zyban is a drug that they used initially to get people off cocaine.

Pulse: That’s kind of sobering.

Thune: Oh yeah. This isn’t any kiddie toy addiction. ||

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