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,1 0 4' , r_/ `rTheGuest o um f = 1 ou 're hool~ec~ - y o n 1c iga rL ttes, rea ~ I~ By DONALD L GIBBON onea. „ fi;.carry oxygen to the body's active argaru. around them. The offense comes not only from a (Mr. Gip bon was active in Guilford County ~ First, even with filtered cigarettes, some tars yr' This means, because the organs must continue , physical dislike of the smell and discomfort of the ,:.. enuironmenltal affairs beJore mouine recently to ~~ ~t through to be deposited in the Ings. Look at ato operate or the body dies, that the heart must ', smoke in eyes, nose and throat, but in many cases Pittsburgh.) ;- pipe cleaner some day, just after it has been runw'ork harder to achieve the same end, putting a~.,from a fear of what that smoke may be doing to.• The natural function of the lungs Is to draw , through a fine briar pipe's stem: It is covered with ;. strain on it. A very close comparison can be made ?y the body the non-smoker would like to protect! ' ! air into'the interior of the body and oxygenate the shmey, staining liquids, relatively heavy organic ;': ;~between the carbon monoxide-blood relationship ~ Perhaps smokers should try to Imagine their *• blood, taking the life-giving substance around ' compounds, No matter what role these materials ';4r and people who drive automatic transmission cars :d own feelings if they happened to be seated at din- ; through the arteries to the organs that need it -"may or may not play in causing cancer, there is no S;~.Kith one foot on the brake and the other on the .z ner next to someone who insisted on providing, '~ the brain, the muscles, the kidneys - all bodily ~ question about their promoting or hindering the ; accelerator, both stopping and accelerating at the against their express wishes, clouds of really nox- ,~. fnctions depending on it. ^ functioning of the lungs in their main purpose: ox- ,• same time. It puts a strain on both the brake and ' ious, smelly fumes. How would the smoker feel if .. Share with me a picture. Imagine the feeling of ~ ygen transfer to the blood. the engine of the car; both wear out sooner. Have }~ someone opened a bottle of ammonia at their table . waking on a cold, clear autumn day, In a wami ~,.r Come with me on a visit to the freshman blolo- 4:;; you ever driven behind someone whose brake .' and blew into it? How do they like talking, up _ bedroom of a chalet high overlooking a lovely east- ~ gy laboratory at Rice University In Houston, Texas. ~,- lights stay on as they pull away from a stoplight "; close, to someone with really bad breath? Body t, hill close the wood stovet just to knock the edge off the chill ', ~.,showin in the mounted lunUs o(aa Welsh coaldmPner ~A ona They're r di ga the brake~ and you wonde r„^d coormm ~icab e diseaseP Does a persone ho sm with kes'.' in the chalet. You have a delicious breakfast, a cup ,'; who di of black lung d gease. Along side are the n't rr'hy are they doing that?" ~- around others feel relaxed when sitting in a closed of steamidg hot chocolate. The sun is now coming " lungs of a healthy young man, killed in an accident. ..t• Over the past decade remarkable advances room with another person they know to be highly up over the mountains across the valley, its warm- , The comparison is obvious and striking. The young .; have been made in the treatment techniques for contagious? How about if their wife were pregnant r ing rays creeping down towards the chalet. You de- ,• ~rson's lungs are a robust pink, the miner's a tur- a cancer victims. Complex electronic devices, using , and a person with German measles insisted on sit- cide to step outside on the deck. You walk to the :~ gid black. This is not to suggest that a light smok- . space-age principles, are now becoming almost or- ting next to them? For smokers who have had trou- • edge, lean against the rail, raise your arms above , er's lungs look like those of a coal miner, but the dinary in modem "oncology" clinics in urban has- . ble understanding what the non-smokers' feelings your head and inhale deeply. „ tendency is clear. pitals. While visiting such a clinic at St. Mary's were, perhaps these examples will clarify the reac- ~ p' Hospital in San Francisco, I was given a tour of •Uons a bit. Feature what is happening inside your body: The second difference between the dee your diaphragm goes down, your chest expands, air ;i breath of mountain air and the "luxurious, satisfy- , the facility by one of the physicians. He showed me As the debate continues on "smokers' rights ^' is drawn 'in. Carbon dioxide is released, and the ,, ing" inhalation of cigarette smoke is more subtle. the multi-megavolt linear accelerator, used to pro- these are some of the issues tha 6e behind the ar- hemoglobin in your red blood cells takes up the ox- ; It turns out that all cigarettes burn to produce aa duce high-energy beams which penetrate deep in- ; guments. As the people of the state of North Caro, ygen re to 1 Your ~ acUon centers~ In a smoke with a smoke-filled significant cocktail carbon party room, content. r: to stop the growthnofrthe uwIntedhcelLq g~y v government inphromotiner the role of their state 1uve ated blood off , the carbon g the production of tobac- ` - and you feel good! , monoxide content can easily be higher than that on -:f - I was deeply impressed with the dedication Ki co, these are considerations which rarely come out ~; A change of scene to the departure lounge of :,;•~ a busy downtown street. It has been measured at and knowledge of these medical scientists and : in the open. The people feel trapped: major indu;- ; ' the Pittsburgh Airport. A tall blonde woman en-,: concentrations as high as 42,000 parts per million . asked this man how many lung cancer victims he y i try, both agricultural and manufacturing, is deeply ters. She is well-dressed, stylish, carrying a brief- (or 4.2 percent. By comparison, oxygen in the nor- had cured in the eight years he had been working " committed to this highly offensive product, a prod- case: a woman on the way up. A cameo ring on r, mal air is found at about 23 percent). there. His answer: "Two!" I was stunned, and ' uct with almost no redeeming merit except that it the right hand, no rings on the left, she sits down ,: What's so bad about carbon monoxide? An- couldn't help asking why they continued to givg provides an income for a large number of people. ,' and searches in her purse. Out comes a pack of . swer: It is a deadly poison in high concentrations! these expensive and finally futile treatments. He .;; This fact causes a classic case of "double- Merits. She chooses one quickly, taps it down, puts It is the reSson people die from inhaling exhaust ~ told me that the real purpose of the treatments' ;, think" on the part of tobaccos supporters; they it between her lips, "flips her Bic" and inhales >: gases in poorly ventilated cars. But it functions in a~.; was to allow the patients to die less painfully. A, are trapped in the status-quo. The most productive deeply. • detrimental way at any concentration. It prevents truly shocking reality for one not In daily contact ', role for North Carolina's leaders is to commit their Think of the comparison: the deck overlooking , the hemoglobin from doing its work. When carbon ti,;, °°h these issues. ` mental and financial powers to finding alternatives the mountain valley versus the airport lounge. monoxide is absorbed by the blood, the hemoglo-'•: Those who smoke evidently are not really .. - alternatives which are known to actually be What's the differen?e to the body? There are two.j~ bin is to some degree degraded in itv capacity to aware of how offensive th f r habit It to those good for their us4rs. V t,zG19ueo

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