[net.med] A Tale of Two Diseases.

werner@aecom.UUCP (Craig Werner) (10/31/85)

	I'd like to talk about two diseases.  Both are responsible for a lot
of deaths.  Neither one causes death directly, but rather they both leave you
open to die from a cause you might not otherwise have died from.

	One is AIDS
	The other is smoking.

Last year, smoking killed 100 times as many people as AIDS.

	Smoking, however, can be treated and cured. If you smoke, quit.

				Craig Werner
				!philabs!aecom!werner
      "... Has Determined That Cigarette Smoking Is Dangerous To Your Health"
-- 

				Craig Werner
				!philabs!aecom!werner
     "The proper delivery of medical care is to do as much Nothing as possible"

speaker@ttidcb.UUCP (Kenneth Speaker) (11/01/85)

In article <1997@aecom.UUCP> werner@aecom.UUCP (Craig Werner) writes:
>
>	I'd like to talk about two diseases.  Both are responsible for a lot
>of deaths.  Neither one causes death directly, but rather they both leave you
>open to die from a cause you might not otherwise have died from.
>
>	One is AIDS
>	The other is smoking.
>
>Last year, smoking killed 100 times as many people as AIDS.
>
>	Smoking, however, can be treated and cured. If you smoke, quit.
>
>				Craig Werner
>				!philabs!aecom!werner
>      "... Has Determined That Cigarette Smoking Is Dangerous To Your Health"

Way back when I thought about getting into medicine, I was working at M. D.
Anderson in Houston.  3-west was the lung cancer wing.  The smoke concentra-
tion in the waiting rooms in that wing were the highest in the building.
Seems everyone was so NERVOUS visiting their friend/relative that just
had a lung or larnyx removed that they needed SOMEthing to calm down --
like a cigarette.  I suggested that a lung which had been removed from a
patient by dried (run air to expand and dry it) and then displayed in
a case in the waiting room.  I was told that would be beyond the bounds
of good taste.  I guess that cancerous, tar-filled lungs are OK, as long
as they are on the inside....

--Kne

kasey@trsvax (11/09/85)

Ok, Craig, I'm going to do it.  The Great American Smoke Out is coming up on
November 21st.  I'm trying to prepare to quit on that day.  My plan of attack
is to become more aware of when I smoke in the next week and to gradually
cut down beginning on the 17th.  Any successful former smokers got any 
suggestions that might help?  I've tried to quit twice.  Once I "stayed quit"
for a whole month.  This time I really want to quit forever!  I don't want to
clutter the net, so mail helpful suggestions to:

uucp: {laidbak,sco,microsoft,{allegra,ihnp4!{convex!ctvax}}!trsvax!kasey}

Kathy Ladewig
Tandy System Software