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[bob ford <bobford79 AT yahoo.com>]

He is very lucky when he drives .  Unless he weighs over 500 lbs , his BAC 
would perpetually be over 1.0, drinking 750ml of scotch per day. ...bobf

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--- On Thu, 10/30/08, paxamicus AT earthlink.net <paxamicus AT earthlink.net> wrote:

> From: paxamicus AT earthlink.net <paxamicus AT earthlink.net>
> Subject: Re: [Homestead] Big 10 Tobacco
> To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
> Date: Thursday, October 30, 2008, 10:02 AM
> My ex father-in-law drinks a fifth of scotch a day, and is
> fit as a  
> fiddle at 90.  He drives, holidays, and babysits his
> grands.
> 
> It's a marvel of pickling, really.
> 
> 
> On Oct 30, 2008, at 11:29 AM, Clansgian AT wmconnect.com
> wrote:
> 
> >
> >
> >>> Now I am glad I never took up the habit.
> >
> > We recently celebrated my father's 81st birthday. 
> All my uncles, all
> > Herself's uncles, my FIL, who smoked are dead,
> almost everyone of  
> > them of tobacco
> > induced cancer of some sort.  My father quit when he
> was 38 years old.
> >
> > Like you, I've never smoked, never used tobacco in
> any form.  If  
> > pressed for
> > a reason I suppose I'd say that it's nasty
> stuff and I never  
> > overcame the
> > revulsion enough to see the other side of it.  Yet,
> Jeanne, do you  
> > not also recall
> > the rationalization you heard in the 50's and
> 60's ..... "when your  
> > number's
> > up, it's up!  I know someone who died of this or
> that and they never  
> > smoked a
> > day in their life.  My grandpa lived to be some
> ghastly old age ...  
> > like 61
> > .... and smoked every day of his life!"   Yet
> here at the end, all  
> > the (at
> > least) men I know personally who are healthy and are
> past 70 years  
> > old are
> > non-smokers.  The rest are dead.   The statistics are
> a slam dunk.
> >
> > Alas, today's problem is obesity, and today's
> people have the same  
> > penchant
> > for denial that smokers had in 1955.
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