Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!seismo!harpo!floyd!vax135!ariel!hou5f!hou5e!mat From: mat@hou5e.UUCP Newsgroups: net.flame Subject: Re: Smoking . . . (Slow Motion Suicide) Message-ID: <553@hou5e.UUCP> Date: Sat, 11-Jun-83 22:59:53 EDT Article-I.D.: hou5e.553 Posted: Sat Jun 11 22:59:53 1983 Date-Received: Sun, 12-Jun-83 17:23:20 EDT References: spanky.365 Lines: 20 Notice the tobacco company adds which keep proclaiming the lack of solid evidence that cigarette smoking harms others nearby? Remember how long the tobacco companies advertised and argued in courts and in congress that no one had shown that cigarettes posed any long term danger to the SMOKER'S health? Well, I wonder why they are screaming so loud now. Most of us have probably read these ads so many times we believe them. As for myself, I am convinced that other folks cigarette smoke harms me. Why? Well, after about 4 PM on Saturday, if I haven't been around smokers that day I find myself cough phlem out of my breathing passages. By Sunday evening they are clear. By Tuesday morning they ar congested again. Tobacco smoke triggers or worsens the symptoms of my various allergies to North American pollens (hay fever). It irritates my throat , nasal, and sinus membranes, making me more succeptible to disease. Mark Terribile Duke of DeNet PS. My officemates don't somke when I am in the office. I suffer from their cigarette smoke anyway. Our society makes it a point of honor that a smoker will smoke where he wants. It should be a mark of shame.