Subject: Re: Smoking !
From: LR Pearson, Arts 99 (lp9616@bristol.ac.uk)
Date: Thu Dec 14 2000 - 07:30:51 GMT
On Wed, 13 Dec 2000 18:32:49 -0000 Scottie Bowman <rbowman@indigo.ie>
wrote:
>
> '... probably more than half my peers smoke ...'
>
> What a casual observer sees is the comparatively
> greater number of young women than young men
> who seem to addicted to cigarettes these days.
> Am I mistaken, Lucy?
>
> Scottie B.
>
> -
Mmm, among my immediate group of friends, about equal numbers of boys
and girls smoke, boys more if anything. However, I was talking about it
with my friend last night and she commented that science and
engineering students seem less likely to smoke than arty types (who
have presumably been corrupted by people like Salinger!) and those
fields are dominated by men. There is though, certainly no stigma
attached to girls and women smoking, as there once was (although this
changes when they get pregnant, in which case one puff of a cigarette
is enough to condemn then to everlasting damnation). So, overall,
you're probably about right.
Love, Lucy-Ruth
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LR Pearson, Arts 99
lp9616@bristol.ac.uk
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