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From: Vixen.*@f11.n203.z1.fidonet.org (Vixen *)
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Subject: Re: Smoking As Disability (?)
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Date: 5 Jan 90 03:09:12 GMT
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Hi Jerry,

I have to go along with you! I think we can sometimes overdo this
"who is a disABLED person" thing by including little "splinter
disabilities" and bad habits.

Certainly, smoking is not healthy for anyone and it has taken
people to illness ending in disability (emphysema et cetera). But I
also have trouble with the concept that a smoker, simply by virtue
of being a smoker, is a disabled person. I suppose one might find
logic in such thought by comparing the addicted smoker to an
alcoholic (who can get SSI for being such) or drug addict.

However, if smoking is a legitimate disability, then I am here to
speak of good news!!!!! There is a cure! Quitting!!!!! Easy, no,
possible, most definitely!

Ahhhh, but whereof doth Vixen speak, and how doth she knoweth of
such things!  Well, Vixen was a smoker of the cancer stick begining
at age nine and quit (cold turkey) about seven years or so ago this
month! (And I feels soooooo good about that!) But, I hardly would
have considered myself a "disabled person" based on mu smoking
habit! Anyway, I found "quitting" to be a very effective cure!

No, I don't hate people who smoke and I am not one of those
"obnoxious ex-smoker types!" But, I am militant about caring about
people who do smoke and hope they can break the chain.

Keepin' the faith!

.                       Vixen

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