on 6/21/00 5:17 AM, Kent Lind at klind@al*.ne* wrote:

> You have it wrong.
> 
> You forgot that these are international discussion lists.
> 
> Your 400,000+ annual number for tobacco deaths and other statistics are for
> the U.S. only.
> 
> God only knows what the numbers are worldwide.
> 
> And to add a diving thrust.  We have those folks who think it's a good idea to
> soak their hemoglobin with carbon monoxide from cigarette smoke BEFORE doing a
> technical dive.  Too stupid for words.

Kent,

Wow! You're right of course. It would probably be impossible to know what
those numbers are worldwide with all the other ways there are to die pushing
onto the front pages.

I did karate in Florida for a number of years and one thing I remember was
how healthy everyone looked. NO ONE smoked. You couldn't. So when I started
diving I was shocked that such a healthy, outside activity would attract so
many smokers who seemingly had so little regard for their health.

The notion of tech divers, nitrox to trimix, wreckers, cave divers,
commercial divers and so on actually smoking cigarettes in that rarefied air
(gas) is just stunning!

Later,

JoeL

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