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Re: ENVIRONMENTAL TOBACCO SMOKE, 3

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From: Jon Krueger
Date: Mon, 13 Nov 1995 00:00
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> YOU, a non-smoker, are being killed by MY smoking? And we've never
> met. Amazing.

Indeed it would be amazing, were it the case as stated.

It is instead the case that we are, both of us (along with everyone
else) paying with our money, health, and lives, for the tobacco
industry's profits.  Some of us pay more in some ways than others. 

> possible .000001% increase in premature death

Over 400,000 Americans die every year from smoking related illness.
None of them calls himself a "possible".  Nor is the term used by
their survivors, their doctors, or the folks who pay their soaring
medical bills (you and me).

Meanwhile, every day 3000 more kids become addicted to tobacco.
1000 of them will die of it.  Recent discoveries from the
tobacco industry include their plans to capture the "youth
market".  See http://www.drugs.indiana.edu/druginfo/tobacco.html.

-- Jon
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From: jpk@firefly.incog.com (Jon Krueger)
Subject: Re: ENVIRONMENTAL TOBACCO SMOKE, 3
Date: 1995/11/13
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