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From: nose@nbires.UUCP (Steve Dunn)
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Subject: Re: Drug Abuse - True Problem or Media Hype?
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Date: Tue, 16-Sep-86 11:54:36 EDT
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Summary: Young and stupid???!!!!

In article <20810@rochester.ARPA>, ray@rochester.ARPA (Ray Frank) writes:
>As I said, I'm addicted to tobacco, but I'm
>not ignorant nor insensitive enough to advocate the use of this horrible killer.
>I became addicted when I was too young to realize the consequences, just as 
>our young people today are doing drugs and not giving the consequences enough
>thought.  Tobacco in general takes much longer to become addicting than a lot
>of todays' popularly abused drugs.  By the time young kids realize the dangers
>they could be addicted and then it is too late.
> 
 Gee, when I was young I heard that tobacco was bad for your health. I didn't
seem to have the slightest difficulty understanding this fact. You know I
don't make any claims to having been some sort of child prodigy either. I
think even a ten year old would have to be deaf and blind to not hear of the 
bad consequences of tobacco. 
  I might also take this opportunity to point out that not all illegal drugs
are addictive. Pot, LSD, mushrooms, peyote are examples of non-addictive
drugs which are still illegal.

                
                  -Steve "Piss bottles for God and Country" Dunn