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smith
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Registered: January 1970
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An NPR reporter says that Gay men and lesbians in California are 70% more likely to smoke than the general population according to a recent UCLA study. Alarmed by these high rates, state health officials have designed a new Anti-Smoking Campaign to focus on gay smokers.
There's an article on MSN called 'Why Do Gays Smoke So Much?'
http://slate.msn.com/id/2086565/
I wonder how they arrived at these statistics? How would they possibly know what I am likely to do? Why would I be more likely to smoke that a str8 guy? I can't even begin to imagine what the campaign would be like.
smith (who doesn't smoke)
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marc
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Registered: March 2003
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From my own personal observations I have noticed that most of my gay friends smoke, drink to alarming excess, tend to float from one boy friend to another as casually as most people change their sox. Most of the time they are either depredssed that their new boy friend hasn't called or pissed that his boy friend called too late......
It seems that a gay lifestyle has its hangups, just like any other lifestyle.
Go figure.....
Life is great for me... Most of the time... But then I meet people online... Very few are real friends... Many say they are but know nothing of what it means... Some say they are, but are so shallow...
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Location: currently So Cal
Registered: May 2002
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As a kid I swore I'd never smoke. I hated the smell. I tried it once in high school under pressure from my cousins. It was awful. I started smoking cigars the summer I graduated high school. A friend and I used to go on all night fishing trips. We'd smoke cigars because it kept the mosquitoes away. I switched to a pipe a couple years later and that's when I began smoking regularly. Before I was out of college I took up cigarettes becasue they were more convenient than a pipe or cigars. I switched back and forth for years. Quit several times but only for a few weeks or months until 1991. I smoked one pack of cigarettes in 1992 and averaged about a cigar a year til '99. Haven't smoked since.
I quit because it became painful. It actually hurt to blow smoke out of my nose. I think smoking is the reason I am always congested these days even though I haven't smoked regualarly in 12 years.
The study wouldn't be difficult. You randomly sample the population and ask whether they smoke or not and their orientation.
I think they should rent billboards for the campaign. they could get a group of gay teens and use the slogan "It's ok to be gay... and smoke free." hehehehe
Think good thoughts,
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smith
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On fire! |
Registered: January 1970
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I never really had a choice cause I have bunches of allergies to everything from mold and tomatoes to smoke and papayas. I gave myself those shots for a year and then one time I forgot to squirt the needle to get the air bubble out, jammed the needle in my leg and froze.....and sat waiting to die!! Needless to say, I survived  But no more shots for me! I just sneeze and cough and have hives...wheeee!! So anyway, smoking is pretty much not an option for me.
I was picturing a red circle with 2 guys holding hands with cigarettes in their mouths and a big red slash across the circle. "No Gay Smoking". hahahaha !!
{{hugs}} smith
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Ever wondered how they do these studies??? 
Good for you smith 
