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From: sarah@rdin.UUCP (sarah)
Newsgroups: net.flame
Subject: Re: long life and smoking
Message-ID: <294@rdin.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 21-Jul-83 10:58:59 EDT
Article-I.D.: rdin.294
Posted: Thu Jul 21 10:58:59 1983
Date-Received: Thu, 21-Jul-83 17:46:45 EDT
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Gee, just think. If I don't smoke I may live to be 100 years old. If I do
smoke, I may only live to be 90 years old.
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   If you do smoke, you may die a very slow and painful young death of 
   cancer, emphysema, or other such unpleasant smoking-related diseases.


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I want the people that are against smoking to relate to the net just how
many years are lost due to smoking.
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   For a definitive answer to this challenge, read:

  "Smoking and health, a report of the Surgeon General",
   U.S. Dept. Health Educ. Welfare Publ.
   (1979)

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Just think about the person that never abused themselves with drugs, tobacco
or alcohol but were terminated on the road by a careless driver, fell down
and broke their neck or some other reason.
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  The fact that I may die young of an accidental death does not cause me
  to leap in front of traffic with wild abandon.  I consider looking both
  ways before crossing a busy road as a responsible avoidance of risk,
  just as I try not to needlessly expose my body to known harmful (and 
  eventually fatal) substances.

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My answer to not liking to be near a smoker is to evacuate and/or ventilate
the area.
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  These responses are not always options.  Further, I believe it is less
  physically debilitating for a smoker to refrain from smoking for five
  minutes, one hour, or even a full eight-hour day than it is for the
  non-smoking person who must occupy the same area with a smoker to 
  breathe the smoke. 


			   --Sarah Groves
                       philabs!rdin!sarah