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From: mading@puff.UUCP (Eric Mading)
Newsgroups: net.followup
Subject: Re: drug testing
Message-ID: <881@puff.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 3-May-86 13:21:23 EDT
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Posted: Sat May  3 13:21:23 1986
Date-Received: Tue, 6-May-86 07:05:10 EDT
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In article <715@steinmetz.UUCP>, davidsen@steinmetz.UUCP (Davidsen) writes:
> 
> I find it hard to care about drug testing for pro ball players. If
> these people are playing straight or so wired that they don't touch the
> ground, it doesn't hurt anyone but themselves. Speed and steroids may
> show some increase in performance, cocaine in quantity will eventually
> get people so messad up they can't play, and goodies like PCP aren't
> any concern of mine.
> 
I think you should know that these pro ball players are idols for young
children.  If these juvinile jocks see the ball players play good and then
learn they are fucked up on drugs, these kids will get the idea that drugs
are okay when in reality they are not.  Drugs are the main cause of evil.

> I worry about my bus driver, pilot, doctor, and anyone else who can
> mess up my life by getting weird at the wrong time. Why anyone would
> say something about testing being needed for athletes but not computer
> programmers escapes me. It's the useful people in the world who have to
> be in touch with reality. Let all the actors, singers, models, and
> anyone else in the entertainment business (except the management, who
> might mess up the stockholders) have all the drugs they can use, they
> hurt no one but themselves.

I worry too about bus drivers, pilots, doctors, and nurses getting high
on drugs.  We need drug testing for them, too.  Kids also worship those in
the entertainment business, so we can't have any of them on drugs either.
As for computer programmers, I plan to have my employees at my company of
the future drug free (this includes tobacco, as tobacco is a drug).  How-
ever, I won't include prescription drugs or alcohol, as long as it is used
in moderation.

I feel that it is worth mentioning that anyone in the entertainment world
cannot appear in cigarette ads.  This also goes for athletes.  However, I
have seen too often jocks and famous stars advertising alcohol and chewing
tobbaco.  I feel that these stars should not be advertising these things.
And I also feel that no pro ball player should chew, because this just
encourages kids to chew (some do it as early as the first grade) and chewing
tobacco can kill, just like smoking can.

Eric Mading
UW-Madison.

Disclaimer: These are my opinions alone, at least.  
> 	-bill davidsen
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