With the old, current and about-to-be enacted laws directed at smokers and smoking, wonder how long it will be before this becomes mandatory treatment for smokers or, at least, accepted regimen for those who may wish a smoker to quit…be it family, personal physician or govt. body…despite the smoker’s defiance?

Can’t happen, you say? Well, not today, not tomorrow…the further research has to be carried out, clinical studies and trials, aftereffects. But “what if”? Seems to me smokers are seen to be a much bigger, more serious threat to society at large, than those who suffer from…let’s say severe depression. The above article talks of several modalities to administer this “therapy”:

a technique called deep brain stimulation, in which electrodes are implanted in the brain to switch off particular areas

Can you say ECT…often used, even in the unwilling, to treat depression and a variety of other illnesses, many times as an aversion therapy and too frequently among the young.

Just curious…but wouldn’t surprise me a bit

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