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                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: MONDAY, January 6, 1992                   TAG: 9201060212
SECTION: EDITORIAL                    PAGE: A-6   EDITION: METRO 
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WAYS PEOPLE DIE DUE TO CIGARETTES

I APPRECIATE D. Grey Thompson's discreet smoking (letter, Dec. 28). He said he had never heard of anyone getting killed over a cigarette.

Just recently a young boy was burned to death from playing with a cigarette lighter; a mother and her daughter were killed driving to a store for more cigarettes; countless people die each year from smoking in bed; and if the price of this drug keeps going up, you could get killed by another addict who doesn't have money to support his addiction. WALTER BIBB ROANOKE

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