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- From: markg@hpmwtd.sr.hp.com (Mark Goldsworthy)
- Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 17:53:34 GMT
- Subject: Re: Smoke cigarettes -- leave early!
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- / hpmwga7:sci.med / robert@unlv.edu (Robert Cray) / 8:22 pm Nov 22, 1992 /
-
- >What I can't figure out is the large number of kids, especially teenage
- >girls that smoke these days. The other day I saw two girls, about 13 and
- >16 years old eating dinner at Wendy's with their father. After a while,
- >the girls got up, moved to the smoking section, and started smoking. Dad
- >stayed put. Some time later one of the girls came and said to her father
- >"if you think we're young to be smoking, look at him" and pointed to a boy,
- >about 12 smoking, so at least he objected, even if he didn't do anything
- >about it. Several weeks prior to that I saw the cheerleading squad from the
- >best high school in town, almost all smoking. This in a rather trendy
- >neighborhood too.
-
- What? You haven't heard of the invinsible teenager? How many 12-13 Year-olds
- think about their own mortality? That's why teens tend to drive fast, drive
- drunk, smoke cigs, start drug experimentation, have risky sex, etc... They
- simply do not think like adults and cannot comprehend consequences like their
- own death from cigarettes 40 years from now.
-
- There is a grain of truth in the saying 'Youth is wasted on the Young'.
-
- Mark Goldsworthy
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