h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Cheers Mrs B

I ewatched my best friends mum die slowly n painfully from emphysema, dont learn do we!



ooh i may have to try popping into superdrug once i can get out properly again!

'Ere, Serephina...did you ever get round to buying the Allen Carr book?

RF

Is that the bloke who invented anti smoking programmes who has just died from lung cancer?

It's like the guy who invented jogging died from a heart attack.

And Linda Mc Cartney, lifelong vegetarian, died from breast cancer.

Then you get Keith Richards, who by his own admission has "used his body as a laboratory" falling out of a palm tree, ending up with a bleeding brain, getting it fixed & whizzing off back out on tour.

Life is a lottery, we can reduce some of the odds but we can't control the whole game.

with trying to quit, if nothing else, you will save loads of money & your house will smell nicer, plus obviously the young 'un is being exposed to passive smoking, not to mention the poor rats!

I had a great MSN convo with your young 'un last night, what a charming, mature & entertaining young man he is! Plus he can damn well spell better than i can; to his teachers & to you for being such a great mum!

zdt

>>Is that the bloke who invented anti smoking programmes who has just died from lung cancer? <<

Yes, he died of lung cancer. This is probably not helped by the fact that he smoked. What he also did is find a way for people to stop smoking easily. So, instead of going for the headline-grabbing "anti-smoking guru dies of lung cancer" try "anti-smoking guru save loads of peoples' lives" angle.

People who've never smoked also die of lung cancer.

Just some thoughts.

RF

Did you smoke then RF?

I didnt get round to buying thatone no, got a good cognitive behaviour one ive got to try properly though!

He said he was chatting to you terri. I was helping ged finish laying the new living room floor,. then dinner arrived (had a takeaway), the genie came over, so i never got to come through n say hi.

Remember, strickly speaking smoking doesn't cause any given disease; All of the diseases; lung cancer, corinary heart disease, etc., etc., can occur in non-smokers, smoking increases the risk, as can other factors for other things.... though

>> Did you smoke then RF? <<

Yes. Stopped on 01/01/02.

I stopped "cold turkey" after having smoked for 20 years. I read that book when I was about 4 days in...and I think it was a very important factor in staying stopped early on. After that...well, read the book.

RF

Well done you

Read it I shall.

It'll give me something to do while smoking

Pages could come in handy if I run out of rolling papers

and if I'm in luck, there'l be a 'no smoking ' sign nearby I can use to strike a match on for with which to light the roll-up made from paper from the giving up smoking book

naughty legs

Oh dear. Well, the way to Hell is paved with good intentions n'all that, see you lot down there then eh?

I've a first class ticket to the underworld; Got it in exchange for my soul with some geezer called Damian....

He was conned

Really? it was lucy ferguson who did my deal..though=t her nname was a bit suspect

All i did was stroke this goat, he had a really cute medallion round his neck & he kept chewing the bottom of my shoes.

>> Read it I shall.

It'll give me something to do while smoking <<

Funnily enough, the author recommends that you continue to smoke whilst reading his book.

I got my ticket from Daryl Van Horne.

RF