My Daughter Smokes

"eradicating

getting rid of completely
and daughter. There are large billboards directed at them both: the tough, “take­charge,” or dapper older man, the glamorous, “worldly” young woman, both puffing away. In these poor countries, as in American ghettos and on reserva­tions, money that should he spent for food goes instead to the tobacco compa­nies; over time, people starve themselves of both food and air, effectively weakening and addicting their children, eventually eradicating" themselves. I read in the newspaper and in my gardening magazine that cigarette butts arc so toxic ^that if a ba^by swallows one, it ks fikety to dm, an^{d t}ha^{t t}he tafied water from a ^bunch of them makes an effective msecticfee.

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   My daughter would like to quit, she says. We both know the statistics are against her; most people who try to quit smoking do not succeed.*
   
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