Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!rdin!sarah 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 Lines: 48 c /************************************************************************/ 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. /************************************************************************/ If you do smoke, you may die a very slow and painful young death of cancer, emphysema, or other such unpleasant smoking-related diseases. /************************************************************************/ I want the people that are against smoking to relate to the net just how many years are lost due to smoking. /************************************************************************/ 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) /************************************************************************/ 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. /************************************************************************/ 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. /************************************************************************/ My answer to not liking to be near a smoker is to evacuate and/or ventilate the area. /************************************************************************/ 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