European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 8, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                I. Ann Landers dear Ann Landers i always have admired your common sense and level headed answers but recently you blew it. I refer to your response to the 52-Ycar-old Bachelor from Mexico City who had been hotly pursued by several women eager to marry him. A a. A a a a your reply not Only invoked the double Standard but you were quite sarcastic. I know exactly what your correspondent is up against because i have been in that Many a spot several times and 1 am no matinee idol. I am a rather Ordinary looking married Man i always Wear my wedding Ringh Middle aged and slightly Paunchy a definitely not a hunk. I work for a College program and there Are Many single women in my classes. I have received any Nur Hber of Mash notes Small gifts Telephone Calls and in person dear Abby dear Abby about year and a half ago a woman wrote you a very moving letter about her sister who had died of lung cancer. Then a Denver woman wrote to say that the letter had caused her to quit smoking. Please run them again. Someone i love very much needs to see those letters in print. We. Mcd. Toronto Canada dear William Here they Are dear Abby when everything a and i do mean everything a else failed i finally quit smoking when someone sent me the enclosed column you wrote in 1986. Will you please run it again Gloria in Winnipeg dear Gloria yes i will. Here it is dear Abby rating More right now than i Ever have in my my beloved younger sister died nine months ago. I still can to believe i will never be Able to Call her on the phone again to gossip and Giggle As Only Sisters do. God How i miss her i asked her doctor what actually killed her and without batting an Eye he said a cigarettes a now i feel so guilty because i her older sister smoked. Thank god 1 was Able to quit in time. She tried to quit but it was too late for her. Her husband and children Are inconsolable. I have Learned a lot from this terrible experience. A smoker has a lot More to worry about than dying. My Sisters stay in the Hospital with lung cancer wiped out her family financially. Abby Why do advertisers make cigarette ads so attractive instead they should run a before and after picture of a once Beautiful woman vomiting and Bald from Rac nation therapy. I know this letter is too Long for your column but if it i am Hurt whole life a ago. I still i Friday March 8, 1991 propositions asking bluntly if i would like to go t6 bed. Some of the language used in these invitations could not be printed in a family newspaper. I have been called at Home and when my wife answers they ask her to put me on the line. This will give you an idea of How aggressive and nervy they can be. Yet the sexual harassment of men by women is consider. Ered something of a joke or worse yet a Macho achievement another notch on the bedpost. Please Ann be More sympathetic when men write about this problem. Done to make them out to be egomaniacal jerks. They need to be listened to and taken seriously. A a a a a a. Yvo v.  a been there in san Francisco dear san Francisco you be written a convincing rebuttal and i thank you. If this is the direction we Are heading in the �?T90s, we re going to have a to write some new rules. The old ones that assume women Are ladies wont do. C of gators Syndicate a will help just one person to reach into her purse or his pocket and throw that pack of cigarettes in the trash it will be Worth it. Grieving dear Abby on april 5,1 read a letter in your column in the Rocky Mountain news that did something for me that nothing else was Abl to do it made me decide to quit smoking. It was written by a woman signed a grieving a whose beloved younger sister had died from lung cancer. Her doctor bluntly stated a cigarettes killed her. A a grieving so final paragraphs hit me Liike a Thunderbolt. Abby please Tell a a grieving that her letter made this 42-year-old, four pack a Day woman reach into her purse and throw her cigarettes in the trash in be taken an oath never to smoke again. Too bad she did no to sign her name. She deserves to be thanked publicly. Free in Denver dear free she did sign her name but requested that her letter he signed a a grieving if published. However i telephoned her to Tell her what a terrific Impact her letter had made and asked if 1 could reveal her identity. She said a if you think it will help just one person go  so orchids to you Dorothy Sosebee dear Abby to Lank you for your continuing efforts to get people to quit smoking. My beloved brother died last week. He was a special person loved by Many he was a Good Christian and we find some Comfort in knowing that he is with our lord but selfishly we want him Here with us now. In a knew that cigarettes could kill but he never thought it could happen to him he loved us and did not want to cause us All this pain and sorrow. Abby please give this message to your readers if you can to quit smoking for yourselves please do it for those who love you. Heartbroken in Indiana a c Universal press Syndicate. The stars and stripes today a crossword Page 19 across 1 fix the. Election 4 quid pro quo8 ones. Performance 12 grounded aussie 13 Elk Texas 14 a for All seasons 15 transom window. Be. 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