Sad news. BBC is reporting that anti-smoking hero Allen Carr has died.
Of lung cancer.
Mr. Carr helped me quit smoking (though I sometimes lapse).
His method was simple and profound - to suggest that life without smoking was better (and less anxiety-prone) than with it (since most smokers feel they need the crutch of a cigarette) and celebrated every smoke free day as liberation from a terrible disease.
Meanwhile the legal sale of tobacco products by major corporations, resulting in millions of preventable (and often painful) deaths each year, is one of the world's enduring evils, and in a hundred years will be viewed with the same moral disgust as the slave trade.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/6194670.stm
Of lung cancer.
Mr. Carr helped me quit smoking (though I sometimes lapse).
His method was simple and profound - to suggest that life without smoking was better (and less anxiety-prone) than with it (since most smokers feel they need the crutch of a cigarette) and celebrated every smoke free day as liberation from a terrible disease.
Meanwhile the legal sale of tobacco products by major corporations, resulting in millions of preventable (and often painful) deaths each year, is one of the world's enduring evils, and in a hundred years will be viewed with the same moral disgust as the slave trade.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/6194670.stm
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