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Subject: Re: Hmmm, I fancy a cigarette...... Posted on: Thu, 20 Dec 2007 17:41:42 +0000 (UTC)

On Dec 20, 5:02 am, Martin wrote:
> On Thu, 20 Dec 2007 15:10:29 +1030, "John H" wrote:
> >I guess when we are young we all think bullets couldnt kill us.
> >Nowadays with the massive amount of literature on the subject, I am amazed
> >people still smoke the cancer sticks.
>
> There was already a massive amount literature on the subject 40 years ago.
> --
>
> Martin

Nowhere near as much as now and the tobacco companies were denying any
link between cancer and smoking (well they still may be but nobody
believes them now).

I remember one man telling me that in the early 1950's his doctor
recommend that he take up smoking for his nerves. :(

John Kane, Kingston ON Canada