And President Reagan too, who lived to be 93.
And President Reagan too, who lived to be 93.
President Reagan gave up smoking. Duh ...
We talked about drugs and marijuana. He was obviously proud of the work Nancy was doing in fighting drug abuse. He spoke about the harm of marijuana and pointed out that we were finding emphysema in young marijuana smokers. He said that the Russians could have wiped out our country if they could have gotten a single generation of young people addicted to drugs and marijuana.
Reagan spoke for a time about the success of the efforts to eliminate marijuana use in the military services. Peer pressure was at work, he said, and our service men and women no longer wanted to entrust their own safety and their own lives to someone who might be stoned. So drug use was becoming unpopular for the young men and women in our armed forces--and, we hoped, to their contemporaries in the civilian world.
It was apparent that President Reagan hated smoking of all kinds. He told about his brother, who had been a two- or a three-pack-a-day smoker. One of his vocal cords had been surgically removed and he had also had triple-bypass heart surgery. The President felt this was a case where lifestyle made the difference between health and illness. Their genes were similar, but their lifestyles were quite different. The President himself never smoked anything but a pipe and he gave that up.
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