> I support everybody's right to chose what they want to do or say as long as they do >not affect the freedom of choice of others.
i make a point of not smoking in company that orefers me not to. I hate smoky places so can only imagine what it must be like for a non smoker. > > > > That is true. I have no fear of death. In fact the only thing I fear in life is ill >health. yes me too. it is the manner of death that bothers me and a long illness too. i hate the idea of being dependant and not being able to do as i please. > > > <<don't eat butter, eat margerine.>> > I don't eat butter or margerine, drink skimmed milk, but fat it self is not bad for you. there is much research now that suggests that it is fat in combo with carbs that causes the problems. (since people have been persuaded to eat high carb/low fat, the obesity rates and heart disease rates have gone up) > don't smoke and drink alcohol infrequently but not because I think I will live >longer. don't drink at all but again reasearcg suggests that drinking 2 glasses of red winee(yuk) a day protects from heart disease and possibly cancer! > > > < > > Well said. Life is not a right, it is a gift. well I am not sure about that one either! how is life a gift for those who suffer all thru it, like children badly neglected and abused or thru famine etc. although it opens up a whole other can of wroms, i think life might have been a choice. it's the only way i can think of us having free will. if we had no choice about having physical life, then there is no free will. I realsie this is very short for such a subject! > > > <<my friend sean died of lung cancer at 25yrs of age. non smoker.>> > > I'm terribly sorry about that Colin. That is too young to die of anything. yes but it happens everyday. he was happy to go, he said he had no regrets. > > > I'm not one of the anti-smoking lobby. Personally I cannot agree with people who >have smoked for 30 years and then take the cigarette companies to court because they >'weren't told it was dangerous.' I agree-it is ridiculous. tho maybe we should eb able to sue those drug pushersi,e the booze industry. > I remember watching an old Bette Davis film a few weeks ago. In those films everyone >smoked. Revealingly when she offered the male lead a cigarette he said. "I shouldn't >really, they are very bad for you, you know."...and this was in the 1940's.!! no bette smoked like a chimney and was old old when she popped her clogs. > > > Anyway, I digress. If people wish to smoke that's fine. Everybody need a little >'Medicine' sometimes. My concern is for those who, due to peer pressure do not always >recognize the dangers of starting i.e. children. The only way to educate them of the >dangers is through advertising. yes. I am not sure it works tho. i started thru 'peer pressure'. i had plenty of anti smoking influence too. one of our teachers had a wife with emphasema(sp?) and he went on and on about the prils of smoking. me and my firedns still did it. The trouble is young people don't believe they can die. death is a long long way off. One reason why so many young people, espe boys, drive like idiots. they have no fear of death. I think it isn't till we undertsand our own mortality, really get it, whoich is usally about mid 30's that we begin to understand and take less risks. unfortunately a habit like smoking is very difficult to stop. I have been thru benzodiazipine withdrawl which was appalling, frightening and truly the worst, yet I have not been able to quit smoking! > > > I've enjoyed this discussion. mw too. bw colin > > > Kevin. > > N.P. Eddie Reader - Medicine -- bw colin DAK,BRO GC, 950i, 940,860,864,890, 260,Silver 830,860, 580 and 270, Passap 6000, Duo80. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.tantra-apso.com
