nicotine, which is what somebody may be kraifcraving, and you sl wean it down over time. we heard as you know, anderson, that his aides carry around the nicotine gum with them as well, because he often is craving the nicotine. having a few cigarettes every now and then, i want to trivialize this. that s a significant issue a lot focus on that and could have an impact on the risk for cardiovascular disease and affect the cholesterol and all the other things you talk about, anderson. he has an excessive bad cholesterol ra cholesterol. explain the importance of that. there s good hld, and the bad is ldl. the low density lipoprotein is considered board line high for that, and it has gone up. you want the ldl to go down and the hdl to go up. you know, he attributes it to a year of campaigning and being