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"Karen Y Byrd" <kybyrd@pobox.upenn.edu> wrote in message 
news:slrne9ifhg.oer.kybyrd@pobox.upenn.edu...
> On Wed, 21 Jun 2006 10:13:50 GMT, mcs <mcs@nspam.net> wrote:
>
>>> I swear there are so many young people who smoke? WHY? WHY? Why
>>> are they smoking? Why did they ever start? What glamor do they
>>> see in it??
>>>
>>Karen, its a big problem and it was a mistake but there were benefits at 
>>the
>>time.
>
> That's an illusion. There are never benefits.
>
>>Its a drug , it has nicotine ,, a stimulant.
>
> Yes, I know that. But one of my question was why start at all?
> Why pick up the habit? People have known for decades
> how bad smoking is.
>
>> Personally I can't see
>>how people who have jobs do it everyday.
>
> Some, the fortunate ones, I suppose, actually like their
> jobs. I do.
>
>> I don't understand allot of things,
>>perhaps I am just sensitive. But the air at this stage in my life shows up
>>in my radar screen automatically on bad air days... learn from it. You
>>personally might not be affected but thats not to say you wouldn't do much
>>better in good air.
>
> Steve, how could I do better when I essentially never get sick in
> this air? Maybe I'll keel over tomorrow. There's no knowing
> that, of course.
>
>> The sad thing is I know of it and can't do much..
>
> I can't do much about the condition of so many blacks males
> in America who  seem to be so dysfunctional. The situation
> pains me a lot but I have to go on regardless.
>
The same things pain me but its the degree. Sometimes you learn from others 
experiences, if one can interpret things objectively.I really am trying to 
help those here who may have questions. Again aside from my and your 
experiences, I default to others conclusions. When such silence to important 
questions materialize, you know something is up, I honestly understand my 
perception is tainted because of prior smoking but like I said countless 
times, that just might have made what affects people negatively that much 
more apparent and its not like I have been wrong ..according to that 
magazine, according to our incidents of asthma and according to the number 
of bad air days in airnow website. No one is asking you to do anything 
obviously because objectivity might often stir up things you don't want to 
look at . If you had someone applying pressure to your diaphram or chest 
automatically and it linked EXACTLY to the warnings on the few sites that 
warn you and tells you why ( pollution and particulates) you think I would 
worry about my cigs in the past or why its happening now and when. If 
negative things are happening when they say its bad, its obviously because 
of things I can't control now except to move and I would be in the streets. 
there is no one to help and its hard to rationalize or ask when I got so 
much here. I should not be made to move because of policies many if not most 
others dont' have to deal with ( coal and ignorance on tv stations and high 
pollution and accumulated damage) with day after day after day of air many 
objective people say one should not  exercise in.
>