Nannies

A letter to the editor in the Fond du Lac Reporter begins:

Dorothy is eagerly waiting to return to Kansas from Oz with the Wizard in the balloon. The balloon accidentally breaks away before Dorothy gets aboard. Dorothy yells, "Come back!" The Wizard yells back, "I can't! I don't know how it works!"

Well, seems to me the writer actually lives in Oz. It says he's in FdL, but I wonder if he spends most of his time in Madison.

Make sure you read the article, Beware: Secondhand Smoke, that was in The Reporter on June 30. In this article, Dr. Warren Post tells of nine babies in the past year who died of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome and whose deaths can be attributed to secondhand smoke.

I wasn't aware anyone had pinpointed the cause of SIDS. As far as I know, no one has a definite cause.

Most smokers say they want to quit.

He didn't ask me. Nope, I'll quit when I die. I happen to enjoy smoking, but as I've stated before, I do respect those around me who don't. But I'll die happy and relaxed. I've found those who smoke are a lot friendlier than those who don't. Remember when people were allowed to smoke on planes? People actually talked to each other, no plane rage, and it was generally a more relaxed atmosphere. Studies that attribute death to smoking don't state the whole truth. They don't bring in family history, living conditions, or anything else that would contribute to death. Like the person was 95 and chopping wood at the time, but was a smoker.