Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site dartvax.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!dartvax!betsy 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 Article-I.D.: dartvax.750 Posted: Tue Feb 21 16:18:47 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 22-Feb-84 04:43:43 EST References: <241@heurikon.UUCP> Organization: Dartmouth College Lines: 23 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