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VK6BE > OM 07.01.11 16:03l 64 Lines 3513 Bytes #999 (0) @ WW
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Subj: Re: VE3WBZ,I agree.
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From: VK6BE@VK6ZRT.#BUN.#WA.AUS.OC
To : OM@WW
Well Ian I certainly would not recommend anyone to start smoking to lose
weight. That could well be suicidal.Maybe some people will lose weight
when they start, but what's the use if they die before their time of lung
cancer or heart disease as a result as several of my associates have
done.You can't argue against the statistics Ian, they are there for all to
see and they make grim reading.
For the record I started smoking when I turned 18. Three years in the army
confirmed me as a smoker. I tried to give up several times without
success. Then the US Surgeon-General published his findings on the
incidence of lung cancer among cigarette smokers. The statistics looked
pretty bad to me and I gave up cigarettes immediately and smoked a pipe
for a short period before giving up completely. I did not put on any
weight even though I found myself eating more - probably the reason for
most ex-smokers gaining weight. It did not happen with me. I was the
non-smoker among my workmates, all of whom smoked. Of them two died of
lung cancer, one of them in his 50s and the other 60 odd, one died of a
massive stroke in the mid 50s and the other died of throat cancer, smoking
related, also in his 50s.Pretty damning evidence I would think.
My sister in law was unmarried and lived with her parents, both smokers.
Both parents died of heart disease and my s-i-l died of aesophagal cancer
at age 53. The oncologist said that he had never seen a case of that type
of cancer in a non-smoker before and hazarded a guess that the cancer was
the result of inhaling the smoke from the parents' smoking.Pretty grim.
Ian...you could lose weight by smoking, and you could be a box of bones
in a funeral parlour before your time. Anyone who takes up smoking to lose
weight is exchanging one problem for another problem which could well be
terminal.It is ignoring the facts. It is crazy in these days when the
consequences of smoking are well documented.
End of sermon, but the statistics are on my side backing me up.
By the way measures passed by my state government to combat smoking:
1. No smoking in any building or any outdoor eating area including bars
and restaurants or in any enclosed space..
2. No smoking in hospitals or in the grounds surrounding the hospital or
in offices or any enclosed space.
3. Tobacco products have to be in a plain pack - no pretty coloured packs.
4. All tobacco related stock has to be behind opaque screens so that the
public cannot see them.They have to ask for them.
5. No smoking in cars where there are to be children.The danger of
sidestream smoking is well known.
Now why has the Government done all this I wonder? Is it possibly because
smoking related illness is a burden on our health scheme and the bill is
paid by the non smoking tax payer?
That is the reason we are given and it looks pretty good to me.
Give it away Ian. You could well lose weight all right. A lot of smokers
lost weight by finshing in a funeral parlour.
By the way at 87 my BP is 125/65, cholesterol and sugar are low and no
cigarettes had anything to do with that.Smoking cannot possibly have
anything to do with lowering those. This afternoon I played lawn bowls
from 1.30 till 5.30. Of the members of the bowling club who leave the room
to have a puff there are about four, maybe five in a membership of
around 200. There was one more but he died of lung cancer last year!!!
Smoking is a dying habit in more ways than one.
Cheers,
Bob VK6BE.
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