Americans Are Waking Up

As far as I can remember, I have known commonsensically from about the second or third grade [around 1947] that activities like cigarette smoking, boxing, drinking while driving, and many other mass activities in our society are dangerous for your  health, your mind [in the case of boxing], and your life [especially in the case of driving while drinking].

I was not a medical genius. I did not know that sunburns could lead over many years to dangerous and life-threatening skin cancers. I did not know of the dangers of long-run sugar consumption. etc.

But those first three dangers seemed obvious from what I could see and heard of routinely in American schools around the country.   I saw the coughing fits in the morning and so on among big cigarette smokers like my mother. In the second grade some older boys in Baltimore convinced me to try a cigarette. I couched badly and it hurt. I assumed from then on it was harmful.

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