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Re: Education
Author: ShyGuy	December 6, 2002 at 04:26:29
in reply to: Education posted by P on December 5, 2002 at 04:56:17

	As I mentioned in the previous posting, I am a PhD candidate (I won't mention the field for the sake of privacy, since it's not a common field). I hold a BA cum laude (with a triple major) and an MA summa cum laude. I've published two works in my field and taught at two major universities for nearly a decade. Yet, since at least 4th grade, I've been obsessed with young smoking females. My sisters played basketball and I remember being completely taken when they said that two of the players on the team where given an ultimatum to quit smoking or quit the team---their endurance and ability to run were seriously hindered. No surprise, the two girls (twins) quit the team. Colleges are the perfect place to see healthy, young women undertake or further the slow process of respiratory destruction. Two stories: A student was once chatting in my office about how bad her asthma was (she'd missed class for a week). She was lamenting about how all her friends smoke, which irritates her asthma, but not her. Wouldn't you know, the next day I saw her sitting outside smoking (and from her style and depth of inhalation, she was no novice!). In one class, several students in the back row were coughing uncontrollably during a flu outbreak. When I made a crack about them sounding like a tuberculosis ward, each spouted her illness, several "flu"'s, a few "cold"s. The last one, who (at 21!) had already attained that sort of deep and gravelly voice usually only heard in a voice marinated by 40+ years of cigarette tar, rasped simply, "Sorry. Smoker's cough." She then proceeded to give a wonderful display of it, though not intentionally.
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