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A man who gave up . Iving-up-srnoking By seYN VAMTOR rVus man ip my bathroom mirror lovrlbmd out at me yesterday =omi~ng and shook hts head sadly as I shifted a rlgsmttb Eo the night side of my mont5 while bnqhiag the Ieft beeth , . "Aad mnts to yoa, boo,• I told him ~ w!!h the diff of ' Vemo:- ~, thenes wlio only could swear with a mouthioad of pebbles, ~~ wbm~e.: I managed it wilh two powids of morniag eonerebe . "~ an my tongue. 'I have'given up givhmg emoldng;' ~;..In:I,amger, tlmee, I nevermindbd ql~g s--LL- g fosexer. It's bad for my sy:tem now. though. Yoa:+eacL the potntwherie ~' yot&e trled all tlie wre-Bne' quiteng ODCIMJQM `and ~ ies not V~ wa~t ~ri~oeiy that may be oo mo~e+e tieehniqves. . qdrama ~~I~~~ ' ticall~r thrOwio.g a Irahllr qemod pa~k~. ~.~a «3.ring Iaudty; ~tvwea Again.~ I said it Iond~y ~ because you would too with & dog biting yon.Tbia method is like wdtlug . your $rst' mrgazioe -- ~ story aadI sending it to Thw • Now Yocber. ICr not aoorpbtbie. C The digestive sy.tem is very impoatant every, time you grve up smoldng forever. Last t3me I quft, the dbobor toid via my hmgs were now fn ezcelleat shape but he nedted 20 aew diseases I was getting on account of beang, ovsrwlelght. You become a passinoate eatea, funlling for somediing'to do until . the cigarette cYnve goes away. Faced with going on a diet the.o; I forced myself to cultivate a t4ste for lettuce. It was painfM1il, but at last I was eating the ': stnf' for ooacb and during meals - uncier milk and fruit for be+eakEatt; soft-boiled'i for hnxh; aoedium-rare at night. Then I'read this artic4e -'Zettuoe biigbt' Kil1' You Ten DIf= ferent Ways." I lost 19 pounds while dieting, though. From my arms, I lost 6 pounds; 1 from my ear lobes; 3 fnommy fingers; 2 bmm my'hair; l from my'Imeeexps; g fnom my cbeeks and O fiam my a $leaeed holdlez anidd smoking ` tlnough my' m~he which L = Iet geow past, my 1qrNrer }lp. - .I 6aaUy had to giveI ap that ryetem.when, onemorning-L g[opdd s{eepily for th+e $rst' good cdgarotte of the day aaid, found I enJoyed it more tban uaul onoe I' got it lighted. It war a pencL For awhila then I was addiirbed to Tloondewgr No. 2's, but the e~ra.ers were bad for my digea. tdbn. Z'he ]dt method I triad rvat aae of' auc6 ialow withdraoval ithat I waa ndog a f~6eied ciguvtte ia ~ waYstlme. ~ - EIaTERPR'ISE. Beaumont, Texas March 4, 1962 Day Before Yesfierday IN the lower level 'ot s h o w business there were those who made the high school, as. semblies dreuit-Swiaa bell'ringers, fiuggiers, 1eo- turera, •and the like, all approved, I'mi sare, . by the school authorities. • The one who met the greatest disaster at' Beaumont H'i g tt School (o® (:ollege, natch) aas . a husky chap who was seIIfng the clean life tq the diarolubW little mansters at BHS. . ,., He was, I' expect, encouungeb, in this by the PTA, the YMCAand the school board. ; It was his task to shoa that by clean living You could lift heavy weights, a doubtful virtue at' best. He didn't smoke, he archly iniormed us. lie didn't, certainly, drink. He didn't--oh perJsh the thcwght --chase girls or stay up late. He drank lots oi' clean water. took cold showers, and exer- dsed. He thought' dean, thoughts, did what his mother told him, stayed' out of dratta; didn't slap little children, andI otherwise, too; was thornugh, fiy nauaeating. But he could litt' weights. He lifted weights all over the BH.4 auditorlum stage, grnmcing. getting', red! In the iace, stirljdng' manly poses, and strutting about. - When he finished he walked to the front bt : the stage and'asked: 1•No little cigarette-smoking shrimp can do, that, can he?" ' BHS had one rather husky little shrimp who smoked cigarettes, drank whiely on oaeasions and took part' in other activities that made h i m the school's flnest' scandal. He walked up on the stage, liftedi one bar n aRer, ° another, then lifted two at' a time, did other Seato of strength the visitor didn't even try. 'phen he left, an& every;body-well, almost everybody-cheered him. It was a coanplete rout for clean living, and • there were sonme thoughtful boys on the way Nime that day.-D. S.