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Subject: Re: Smoking and sports

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Luke

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Date Posted: 23:38:58 06/19/07 Tue
In reply to: Hayley 's message, "Smoking and sports" on 16:46:18 05/29/07 Tue

Hayley-

I have been following this thread, and after alot of thought, I would suggest you pick a hard limit like 5 or 6 a day, or decide to quit now in order to prevent your smoking from keeping you on the sidelines.

I don't mean to be a downer or anything, but remember you have your whole life to smoke, but you only have your youth to play competitive sports.

You have said you are smoking 9 or 10 on some days, when you only wanted to smoke 5 or 6, if you are not very careful, it will be a pack a day befor you know it.

Think of all the ramifications of your action, if the coach caught you smoking, would you be off the team? If you are possibly in the running for a college scholorship, could the .1 of a second your smoking could add to your 40 time cost you an athletic scholorship, or keep you off of a roster.

You say you do not think you are addicted yet, what I would recommend to test that is go one day without smoking, even if you don't intend to quit. Doing so could be a real eye opener as to how much you need to smoke instead of want to smoke.

Good luck on whatever your final decision is, keep well, and may you always shine on the field.

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