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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Lady Lurksalot who wrote (14914)	1/5/1998 10:55:00 PM
From: Grainne	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

Holly, I am not very good at playing connect the dots. I want to do some more research on the net, and try to look at some of the actual studies before I say anything else. I would need to see for myself how the research is conducted, and what the criteria are for inclusion in the statistics. I will be back on this one later!!! Unfortunately, any level of cigarette intake is harmful to many of the body's systems. And even if the statistics are skewed, as you say, I still don't understand why it is evil that the government is trying to discourage smoking, or pointing out the risks. Certainly it is a violation of your civil rights to be told you cannot smoke at all, since you already do, but it would not seem to be such a violation to later generations who have never gotten addicted, and that seems to be a primary thrust of public health education programs. So can we play some more another time?