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From: barnett@ut-sally.UUCP (Lewis Barnett)
Newsgroups: net.misc,net.med
Subject: Re: Why Smoke?
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Date: Wed, 13-Jun-84 13:16:41 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jun 13 13:16:41 1984
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Organization: U. Texas CS Dept., Austin, Texas
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>A movement to add "smoking while pregnant or in the presence of or in the
>same domicile as a child" to the legal definition of child abuse
>in the various states may well be the most effective anti-smoking
>tactic for the effective reduction of smoking. I wonder why the
>Surgeon General has not adopted this tactic instead of emphasizing
>the dangers to current adult smokers.

>Will

I suspect that the tobacco lobby is simply too strong for this idea to
be politically feasible, however sensible it seems.  I'm certain that
the smoking public would also raise merry hell if any legislator brought
such a bill before the congress.


Lewis Barnett,CS Dept, Painter Hall 3.28, Univ. of Texas, Austin, TX 78712

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