Dear Abby

Advise-and Consent

Dear Abby:

My husband smokes three packs of cigarettes a day, and has a hacking cough which drives me up a wall.

I stopped smoking in hopes that he would, but it didn't work. He coughs so bad at night, that it interferes with my sleep. I have threatened to sleep in the spare room. What would you do in my case?

Dear Disgusted:

Disgusted

I'd quit threatening, and appeal to his sense of logic. Tell him that the person who quits cigarettes for five years has the same chance of escaping lung cancer as the nonsmoker.

Also, the person who is 25 and does not smoke, can expect eight extra years of life. If that doesn't do it, sleep in the spare room.

Confidential to All Who Wrote to Protest a Recent Item:

A writer asked, "In your opinion, is homosexuality a desease?"

I replied, "No! It is the inability to love at all which I consider an emotional illness.” Meaning that I do not regard the homosexual as sick. Rather, the person who is incapable of loving at all is, in my opinion, the sick

one.