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From: speaker@ttidcb.UUCP (Kenneth Speaker)
Newsgroups: net.med
Subject: Re: A Tale of Two Diseases.
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Date: Fri, 1-Nov-85 15:11:16 EST
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Posted: Fri Nov  1 15:11:16 1985
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In article <1997@aecom.UUCP> werner@aecom.UUCP (Craig Werner) writes:
>
>	I'd like to talk about two diseases.  Both are responsible for a lot
>of deaths.  Neither one causes death directly, but rather they both leave you
>open to die from a cause you might not otherwise have died from.
>
>	One is AIDS
>	The other is smoking.
>
>Last year, smoking killed 100 times as many people as AIDS.
>
>	Smoking, however, can be treated and cured. If you smoke, quit.
>
>				Craig Werner
>				!philabs!aecom!werner
>      "... Has Determined That Cigarette Smoking Is Dangerous To Your Health"

Way back when I thought about getting into medicine, I was working at M. D.
Anderson in Houston.  3-west was the lung cancer wing.  The smoke concentra-
tion in the waiting rooms in that wing were the highest in the building.
Seems everyone was so NERVOUS visiting their friend/relative that just
had a lung or larnyx removed that they needed SOMEthing to calm down --
like a cigarette.  I suggested that a lung which had been removed from a
patient by dried (run air to expand and dry it) and then displayed in
a case in the waiting room.  I was told that would be beyond the bounds
of good taste.  I guess that cancerous, tar-filled lungs are OK, as long
as they are on the inside....

--Kne