From: john@thebeard.demon.co.uk (John Robinson)
Newsgroups: alt.humor.best-of-usenet
Subject: [rec.arts.sf.written] Re: Do bad dangerous habits return when diseases are cured?
Date: 29 Jun 1998 10:36:15 GMT

Subject: Re: Do bad dangerous habits return when diseases are cured? 
From: lizard@mrlizard.com
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written

rcpj@panix.com (Pierre Jelenc) wrote:
>People don't seem put off by harmful effects. And not just hypothetical
>cancer 20 years away. Last Friday I observed a group of graduate students,
>all smokers, comparing the loss of elasticity of their skin (you pinch the
>skin on the top of your fingers near the hand. It should spring back
>instantly. If it does not, your collagen and/or elastin is already shot.) 
>
>They are people in their early to mid twenties, and they have the skin
>elasticity of 70-year olds. They found it funny.

I think we need to make smoking MORE fatal. As it is, it doesn't kill people 
until they have long passed breeding age, making the evolutionary benefits 
virtually non-existent.

Sigh.