There was this news e-mail I recieved last monday ( thanks, Ate Claire) I can't help but pay great sum of attention to. That's why I made this entry to let everone be aware of what is happening. Maybe soon all of us should band together and say "Enough is enough. Please dont tell us what else will kill us."

First it was cigarettes. We are still being warned cigarettes will cause lung cancer or emphysema, not to mention turn our fingers and teeth yellow. Although I'm a 'I got better ways to kill myself other than that smoke puff' freako, I pay sympathy to those who are 'addicted' and I've heard a lot about the difficulty of quitting. Non-smokers and smokers, I predict, will have a civil war eventually and kill off great numbers of both sides all in the name of health.

And cholesterol. Eat stuff that really tastes good and let cholesterol clog your arteries, and one day you'll be sitting there eating a couple of sunny-side ups or a good serving of ham and cheese omelet and you'll drop dead of a heart attack. "He should've watched his diet," they'll say at your funeral. Pity. Got no one to blame here, buddy. You have those innocent eggs under your full control.

You can get cancer from just about everything, it seems. There's asbestos, eating smoked food, or drinking too much coffee. And speaking of drinking, go ahead and have another glass of scotch, brandy or beer. you know your liver is rotting with every sip.

Then there's AIDS. I don't want to talk about AIDS anymore.

So let's say none of these gets you. Great! except now there's something new to worry about -- Radon.

You quit smoking, drinking, and eating fatty food. You exercise everyday, brush regularly with tartar-control toothpaste, and have monthly check-ups with your doctor. You've eaten cereal until its coming out of your ears. You take all sorts of vitamins. And speaking of cereal, you even eat yours with some dried plants or fruit crops on top.

But you are still not safe. Radon is out there to get you. It's under the ground and it's seeping through. Waiting for you to have a whiff of it. You cannot smell Radon. And you can't see it, either. But it's there. You should've puffed most of that cigar since Radon can give you lung cancer, too.

If you want to be safe from this killer, you've got to buy loads of thinga-ma-jiggas that measures Radon in your house. And if you already have it, you need to get some guy to come over and make an assortment of repairs. And that's going to cost you.

Wouldn't we be better off if nobody told us about things like radon? sure it might pick a few of us off, but we wouldn't have to lie in our beds at night wondering how much radon the uranium under our homes is producing.

...worry kills too. would someone please mention that to the Surgeon General.