Smoker Demands Store Clerk Hand Over Carton Of KOOL Cigarettes, Then Shoots Clerk Paralyzing Him From Neck Down

A smoker is under arrest for exiting a late model Corvette and entering a small SouthEast Portland, Oregon grocery store, demanding a carton of KOOL cigarettes, then shooting the clerk in the neck severing his spinal cord and leaving him paralyzed from the neck down.

This same smoker has robbed at least 11 more businesses, nearly always asking for KOOL cigarettes. Police detectves were able to trace the robberies to the smoker because of his strong preference for KOOL cigarettes. How this smoker will cope with many prisons in which smoking is not allowed will be interesting. But when you Jones for cigarettes this bad, you've got a real problem. But cigarette addicts have been known to participate in robbery and prostitution to support their nicotine drug habit before. And the cigarette companies tell you their product isn't that addictive.

The grocery store's owner was attending a church service, so a family friend offered to watch the store for a few hours, when the gun toting smoker-robber came in.

That's one nasty nicotine drug addiction to cigarettes.