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Show ALL DUNN by Roy Dunn would just ration myself. Since I am so much stronger than the average smoker, I allow myself a cigarette every two hours, and since I only sleep six hours out cf every twenty four, this allowed me nine smokes a day which certainly wouldn't harm anyone in my superb physical condition. But this didn't work too well for I just about wore my watch out, pulling it out of my pocket pock-et to see if it was time for another an-other smoke. After my boss threatened to fire me for being so absent-minded, absent-minded, I decided to resume my usual smoking habits. It ain't that I can't quit the darned things, I just want to do it in a scientific way. Shucks, it's the principal of the thing that counts. SEE YA'ALL LATER HOWDY FOLKS Since the S.S. Surgeon General's report re-port in 1964 that cigarette smoking smo-king contributes to mortality, I have sorts peeked at my hole card every time I fire up one of those little white cylinders. A famous doctor at the Mayo Clinic has been .quoted as saying say-ing that he is astonished at the utter disregard the smokers have for their lives. Dr. Vincent Peale has said, in effect, the same thing. Seems that right after the Surgeon General came out against smoking, the tobacco companies never made so much money. But now we find that the seriousness of all these warnings is finally sinking in for last year smoking declined for the first time since 1964 anc' now there are only 60 million mil-lion puffers in the U.S. instead of the 70 million there once was. One reason is that many-teenagers many-teenagers no longer feel obliged obli-ged to smoke in order to be "IN", and it is not necessarily the thing to do to become 'MOD" and accepted. The tobacco critics in Washington Wash-ington was finally able to get the labeling law passed and now it states, right on the side of the package that "cigarette smoking may be hazardous to your health." To seme smokers this is only a guideline to determine de-termine if the cigarettes are fresh. They wouldn't plunk down the money for a pack of butts if this warning was missing, mis-sing, for these would be stale cigarettes. I have often thought a similar sim-ilar warning could be printed on the label of a bottle of liquor and could read: "The drinking of this liquor can cause serious gastric disturbances, cause you to be slightly off-center, lose your sell' respect, the respect of your family and friends and could cause you to lose your job. If you persist in drinking this liquid, it will eventually eat up your liver and someone will be patting dirt in your face, long before your time." But I don't reckon it would be very smart for the distillers to put such a warning on a bottle bot-tle of booze. What the heck would tl'ey do with all the lik-ker lik-ker that, didn't have this warning war-ning on the label? They would have to pour it down the sewer sew-er for it wouldn't be fresh. That's what. I remember how it was when I was a kid and working in construction for the contractors. contrac-tors. I had some kind of a crazy notion that since I was a kid and only 15 years old, I should smoke and that by doing so, would be more likely to be accepted as s man among men, for after all, didn't all men smoke? I didn't like the darned things and wondered why they were smoked. And so it was that I was launched on the nicotine trail which has stretched over a period per-iod of more than 45 years in which I have viewed the world through a haze of smoke. I have burned holes in my clothes and upholstery, scattered ashes from hell to breakfast and hated ha-ted with a passion, signs that read: "NO SMOKING." There have been times when I would have worried more at having been out of cigarettes than food. Cigarettes was a very important, im-portant, part of my life but about two yea'-s ago, I decided to quit. Yeah, I decided to quit. I wasn't about to let a little 'ole thing like a cigarette cause me any trouble and especially since they were now being called "CANCER STICKS." I'd just quit, that's what I'd do. And I did. I quit, making a clean break and neve had even one cigarette for two hours and eleven minutes. I never had a smoke in all that time which proved to me that I can quit any darned time I want. I feel sorry for all those knot -heads; who say they can't quit. They are just veak. Later, I made another experiment, ex-periment, decided I would reduce re-duce my intake of nicotine. I knew I could kick the habit if I wanted to but for a start I |