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R 1 S E PRESS CUTTINGS. THE WEST AUSTRALIAN (PERTH): 28TH', SEPTEMBER 1993 ARISE, - oh saviours of real life ARISE, ARISE Piease arise and aecept.our thanks: You might even . start the movement where thepoo r V t-upoo general public arisragdnst They ho Know Best. You wam Inn know wharARfSE Is,.don•t youP'AR)SE is the Associated for Research. Into. Substance Enjoyment. ARISE Is. a group ofaeademies in Europe. ARISEE mighflt just be amongg the front rnnaers In thereturn to sanlty- I7II esene foryive them: theiedreadful'acronym. The ARISEE group haree decided that thre wowsershane gone too far.Nowsome of ua decided this years ago but have fell RkeEagles supporters at thr. Crand Final -very lonely. N~owwe hare a group of atsdemia. andldbctora joiaing in. Hoorq! Read ohis: •Ptviunicaiheslth worken who dlctate whether people should smoke or. drinkalrnhot and coffee art tryingtog ruin the qudityy of Ilfr." OR:'Maoyof us.hdd'the.iew that k Isas person's nght to enjoy these pleasures" and we are very concerned about'thispurihnlcal movement againsrt pleasure.' Thank DrDa.id Warbunun. a professor ofpharmacolagyat Reading. University in. England. fcr that one. And cheer him to.the rafters.for thisonas "People should be dlowedto live a life of moderated liedonism." 1 might have eliminated the word "modented" thne but whoo wants to split hairs? The goodd doc and his crew understandd that life laa series ofl highs and lows, ple.aurn and painss and happinesss andsadnessand.,no matterhow hud theyy try.. the wewsers cannot reduce tt to a straight line. if'some, peop)b want to smokr their way to their own hea+en or helL that Is their responsibility. If some wanc to drink their way there. then that is.opto them n.well. As long as. theih actiritks; dfea'a onlythemselres:it Isthelr baslness oaly.. Following the weetiend's admission by the Quit ampaigoerso that only seven per cent, of WA smakera ha+e quit (and'~~e at'. a t)me of massive yrice hlkeson the weed) the ARISE people lura, some .ery Interesting sutUtks. LIKE In Japan where tbere isnest to no antlnmok{na wmpafan, less than two. per. cent of 16-year-nids smoke. LIKE: In Sweden wherscigarettee advertising. is banned. 44 per «nt of 1P6-ye.r•oldssmoke. Thee academics have rea3lsed that' we smoko; dAnkdcahol and coffee, get, oeerwel he - we even climb mounuins, bungy~tunp and hang glide - despite knowing of the dangers, real nd exaggerated: I just wish those who want to live our lives for us: would, learn the aame lesson.