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Yeah, I remember that. He got Milverton to give him a cigarette while playing sick, and then later admits he'd missed tobacco more than anything else.
I fully believe tobacco is addictive and I'm sure Holmes was addicted to nicotine. Whether he was one of those who could quit fairly easily, would have to work hard at quitting, or was incapable of quitting I don't know. I'm inclined to think the latter--not because of lack of willpower, but because I don't think he'd bother applying his willpower to the task. You have to REALLY REAALLY want to quit to succeed and stay off tobacco, and he likes his smokes too much.

Personally, I believe that our dear Mr. Holmes is for the law when he is younger, but the longer he works with it the more he comes to realize... I believe... yes one moment... *rummages* Ah here we are... *pulls up a volume.* In the Return of Sherlock Holmes, in Part two of the Abbey Grange He states; "No, I couldnt do it Watson. Once that warrent was made out nothing on earth would save him. Once or twice in my career I feel that I have done more real harm in my discovery of the criminal than ever he had done by his crime"

From this, I deduce that our Mr. Holme's would have, if it were made illegal in his younger life, quit the morphine and cocaine, but not the cigarettes, and I don’t thing you'd ever see him smoking one of those hideous little electric ones. Though, when he was older, and moved across the fence of the law, instead of being on one side or the other of it, he would have still continued the use of the dangerous drugs, because as we know, he would have absolutely hated the in-action of the elder life, for he states often that he hates in-action of any kind, which is why he uses his cocaine in the first place.


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