But if smokaholics and alcoholics really did have a congenital flaw in their physical make-up, surely a doctor could examine them, X-ray them, take samples of their urine and blood ... or do whatever it is that doctors do to diagnose physical diseases. With the miracles of modern science, particularly in the field of genetics, surely it would be possible to detect the flaw and warn addicts before they took their first cigarette or drink? If alcoholism was due to a chemical flaw, it wouldn’t take from two to sixty years to become an alcoholic: you would become one immediately. In fact you could
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