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To: RealMuLan who wrote (52594)	8/25/2004 12:37:58 AM
From: S. maltophilia	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74559

creators.com ..... So the obese smoker who keels over at age 68 saves the taxpayers money. He has probably collected Social Security and Medicare benefits for only three years. The aerobics queen whose careful health habits help extend her life to 90 will have spent at least 25 years in these programs. (Some years ago, Harvard law professor W. Kip Viscusi calculated that smokers actually eased the taxpayer's burden -- to the tune of 83 cents a cigarette pack....

To: RealMuLan who wrote (52594)	8/25/2004 12:58:54 AM
From: LLCF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74559

<skyrocketing rates of obesity.> I was pulling out of a parking spot just yesterday and a lady was loading some stuff into her car on the street side such that I couldn't even pull around her. I rolled down the window and said "excuse me, can you please move out of the way till I get out?" "GO AROUND"- she growled tossing another wholesale sized carton of Hostess something in the back seat... "I only have 1/2 a tank of gas I snapped!" Actually a Rodney Dangerfield. BTW: <Dr. George Blackburn, associate director of Harvard Medical School's nutrition division> Seeing that your average doctor takes like one semester to nill nutrition, maybe this guy should shut his yap and put his energy in his own back yard.