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  • I began my addiction when I was 12 years old. By the time 40, 45 years later, when it, you know, it threatened my life and maimed me in terms of my voice, I was so addicted that I was smoking four packs of cigarettes a day.

    Transcript to Oct. 9 at Cleveland State University, www.nbcnews.com. October 9, 2002.