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From: betsy@dartvax.UUCP (Betsy Hanes Perry)
Newsgroups: net.misc,net.med
Subject: Re: Request for reasons and ways to quit smoking
Message-ID: <750@dartvax.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 21-Feb-84 16:18:47 EST
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Posted: Tue Feb 21 16:18:47 1984
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I find this suggestion (posting commonly-known truths
about 'why smoking is bad for you') EXTREMELY officious,
on a par with all the articles explaining WHY abortion
is morally evil/morally admirable in my local paper.
(Please, please, let's not raise that corpse!)  It seems
to me highly probable that anybody over the age of consent
has heard all the arguments and counter-arguments ad nauseam.
 
Let's give our fellow beings some credit for intelligence:
everybody has read the findings on the hazards of smoking.
Smokers will not be encouraged to quit by the 99th
reiteration of 'But it's bad for you, Sonny!'.  Smokers
are also unlikely to be helped by non-smokers'
ideas on 'how to quit smoking'.  'Kicking the habit'
is NOT a trivial task, and is something that each person
has to do for itself.   I think that the only gain
realized by the proposed posting will be a pious glow
in the bellies of those who respond.
 
Not a smoker myself, but tired of pointless arguments,
-- 
Betsy Perry
decvax!dartvax!betsy