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From: greg@utcsri.UUCP (Gregory Smith)
Newsgroups: net.jokes,net.women,net.med
Subject: contraceptives - a new wonder drug
Message-ID: <2447@utcsri.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 1-Apr-86 16:02:55 EST
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Posted: Tue Apr  1 16:02:55 1986
Date-Received: Tue, 1-Apr-86 19:23:36 EST
Reply-To: greg@utcsri.UUCP (Gregory Smith)
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Summary: 

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The following is from the Toronto Star, Mar 31 1986, Page C1:
( without permission ):

	A voluntary risk chart in the 1984-85 edition of "Contraceptive
	Technology", an annual update co-written by [ Dr. Robert ] Hatcher,
	gives smokers a 1-in-200 chance of dying in one year. Women
	smokers using oral contraceptives have a 1-in-16,000 chance of
	dying in one year. For non-smokers on the pill, the death-in-one-
	year odds are 1 in 63,000; for women using an IUD, they are
	1-in-100,000...

So, folks, the ill effects of smoking are greatly lessened by the oral
contraceptive. Furthermore, if you take this pill *and* refrain from smoking,
you can expect to live many thousands of years. If you use an IUD, you
will probably live even longer. So birth control will *not*,
in fact, help to reduce the population explosion.

But how do we men get in on this?

(Note: The above is just a satire of a badly-reported set of statistics. I do
not mean to imply that the Pill lessens the ill effects of smoking; the
opposite is in fact aparrently true. )

-- 
"If you aren't making any mistakes, you aren't doing anything".
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Greg Smith     University of Toronto      UUCP: ..utzoo!utcsri!greg