Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site ttidcb.UUCP Path: utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!ucdavis!lll-crg!seismo!cmcl2!philabs!ttidca!ttidcb!speaker From: speaker@ttidcb.UUCP (Kenneth Speaker) Newsgroups: net.med Subject: Re: A Tale of Two Diseases. Message-ID: <517@ttidcb.UUCP> Date: Fri, 1-Nov-85 15:11:16 EST Article-I.D.: ttidcb.517 Posted: Fri Nov 1 15:11:16 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 3-Nov-85 05:20:21 EST References: <1997@aecom.UUCP> Reply-To: speaker@ttidcb.UUCP (Kenneth Speaker) Distribution: na Organization: Transaction Technology, Inc. (CitiCorp), Santa Monica Lines: 30 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