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Dear Ann Landers,
am writing about your column on breast can-cer in which you stated, "One out of eight women will get breast cancer." I believe these statistics are often used to distort opinions when pulled out of context. While some women may need to be frightened into get-ting regular checkups and mammograms, there are a great many others who don't appreciate the anxiety caused by incomplete data. Would you please print the following from the Women's Health Let-ter? It presents a more realistic picture. Thank you.

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, but some women took terrible when they smoke and my wife looks 40 worse than most. The cigarette just dangles in the comer of her mouth like the house man in a 21 game. When the smoke curls up into her face, she squints her eyes and the mascara runs. Nora smokes filter tips. Sometimes she absentmindedly lights up the wrong end of the cigarette, and the house smells like the wind is coming from the packing house in Omaha. I don’t want to get into a thing with Nora about smoking, but I wish she’d quit. Do you think I have the right to ask her? -Nora’s Mate

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