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From: dgary@ecsvax.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.followup,net.misc,net.religion,net.med
Subject: Re: Why Smoke?
Message-ID: <2726@ecsvax.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 13-Jun-84 16:16:05 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jun 13 16:16:05 1984
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>From: plunkett@rlgvax.UUCP (Scott Plunkett) Tue Jun 12 09:38:23 1984
>...  "Son, if I ever catch
>you smoking," he said, "I will break both your legs."  To
>reassure his son that this was not infact an act of mercy, he
>continued, "..and if that doesn't make you stop, I'll kill you."
>Son never smoked, never particularly wanted to, after that heart-
>to-heart.

Who says health warnings aren't effective in discouraging smoking!
By golly, those packs ought to say

    WARNING:  The Surgeon General has determined that he will
    kill your ass if you smoke.  Thank you.

Call this Damned Assured Distruction (DAD).  :-) (if you need help)

D Gary Grady
Duke University Computation Center, Durham, NC  27706
(919) 684-4146
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