DRUGS DON'T CAUSE OBESITY

Does cocaine make you fat? In his letter of Nov. 8, Martin Luschei states
"fashionable Americans - too many of them fat - think using cocaine is
harmless."

Perhaps Mr. Luschei has found the solutions to America's drug problem. Just
run TV ads showing all those obese junkies - and drug abuse is history!

Or was he just indulging in a little gratuitous fat-people bashing?

Yes, there is a growing problem of obesity in this country, but it's one we
can't blame on drugs. Try blaming the multi-billion diet industry that
continues to keep it a secret that DIETS MAKE YOU FAT (by reducing
metabolism).

If we taught our teen-agers to fear drugs as relentlessly as we teach them
to fear even an healthy amount of body fat, Americans would stay a healthy
size, and the Colombian drug lords would have to take up potato farming.

Karen Burnett, Atascadero