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Posted: 10/5/2005 3:26:24 AM EDT
Now there is undisputable proof that smoking is bad for you.

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Link Posted: 10/5/2005 3:28:04 AM EDT
[#1]
It's not bad for me - I don't do it.





Depressed chimp lights up
From:
From correspondents in Beijing

August 26, 2005

Ai Ai
Escape ... Ai Ai the chimp took up smoking after becoming depessed, keeper say / Reuters

IT'S not a sight one would expect to come across in the chimpanzee enclosure.
But visitors to a zoo in China are having to get used to the sight of its resident primate puffing away on a cigarette.

Ai Ai formed the habit after watching visitors and her keepers smoking at Qinling Zoo, in central Shaanxi province.

It is thought the 26-year-old had been struggling to cope with the death of her second mate and one of her offspring.

She began picking up butts near her cage and now is given whole cigarettes from time to time to keep her calm. Keepers are trying to gradually reduce her daily intake.

Ai Ai is not the only smoking chimp in China - home to one in three of the world's smokers.

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In Zhengzhou Zoo 13year-old Feili took up the habit because her mate 28 years her senior was unable to keep up with her amorous demands.
Link Posted: 10/5/2005 3:28:42 AM EDT
[#2]
By God - if the monkies are able to do it, so can I!  

*hobbles out to smoke another*
Link Posted: 10/5/2005 3:31:03 AM EDT
[#3]
Thanks fight4yourrights. I was too lazy to do that.
Link Posted: 10/5/2005 5:43:10 AM EDT
[#4]
<Phillip Morris> Sounds like a new market for our products! < /Phillip Morris>
Link Posted: 10/5/2005 5:47:06 AM EDT
[#5]

Quoted:
<Phillip Morris> Sounds like a new market for our products! < /Phillip Morris>



<Lawyer for Phillip Morris> No, we can't do that.  Remember how we had our asses handed to us over Joe Camel? </Lawyer for Phillip Morris>
Link Posted: 10/5/2005 5:51:28 AM EDT
[#6]
Quoted:
It's not bad for me - I don't do it.
53,000 ppl die each year from second hand smoke....so yes it is bad for you too
Link Posted: 10/5/2005 5:54:29 AM EDT
[#7]

Escape ... Ai Ai the chimp took up smoking after becoming depessed, keeper say

Same here brother, same here.  What was the bitch's name?
Link Posted: 10/5/2005 6:03:36 AM EDT
[#8]

Quoted:
Quoted:
It's not bad for me - I don't do it.
53,000 ppl die each year from second hand smoke....so yes it is bad for you too



Source please?
Link Posted: 10/5/2005 6:05:25 AM EDT
[#9]

Quoted:

Quoted:
Quoted:
It's not bad for me - I don't do it.
53,000 ppl die each year from second hand smoke....so yes it is bad for you too



Source please?



Google it.... you can find thousands of sources all saying same thing.
Link Posted: 10/5/2005 6:07:34 AM EDT
[#10]
You've come a long way, baby....

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