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From: rjk@mgweed.UUCP (Randy King)
Newsgroups: net.misc,net.med
Subject: Re: Request for reasons and ways to quit smoking
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Date: Sun, 4-Mar-84 22:55:52 EST
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Posted: Sun Mar  4 22:55:52 1984
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dartvax!betsy is tired of hearing about ways to quit smoking.  I, for
one, am tired of being exposed to it.  It's simple - you keep smoking,
and I'll keep screaming.  Let's examine a few points that Betsy makes:

>> Let's give our fellow beings some credit for intelligence:
>> everybody has read the findings on the hazards of smoking.

How many smokers do you know that smoke to enhance their intelligence?
Smoking is not an act of intelligence, but one of ignorance and the
high school need to be cool.  "But it calms me down."  Suck your thumb.

>> Smokers will not be encouraged to quit by the 99th
>> reiteration of 'But it's bad for you, Sonny!'.
>> Smokers are also unlikely to be helped by non-smokers'
>> ideas on 'how to quit smoking'.

Yes and no.  They won't quit based on your chortling, but maybe, just
maybe if you show you *care* for their sake (and yours) you just might
help a borderline smoker go off.

>> 'Kicking the habit' is NOT a trivial task, and is something that
>> each person  has to do for itself.

I am in total agreement here.

>> I think that the only gain realized by the proposed posting will
>> be a pious glow in the bellies of those who respond.

Welcome to the Usenet, where pious glows abound (unless you're
dead from lung cancer, in which case you wouldn't be posting.)

I say, POST AWAY!  Give those that want it some help, some reasons,
some direction to quit.  Give those that need it some ammunition to
hurl at inconsiderate smokers or people they care about and want
to nudge along toward quitting.
						Randy King
						AT&T/CP-MG
						ihnp4!mgweed!rjk