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From: jnw@uvacs.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.flame
Subject: Smokers Present Problems (short titles suck!)
Message-ID: <787@uvacs.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 24-Jun-83 17:27:56 EDT
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Posted: Fri Jun 24 17:27:56 1983
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I'm sure we are all familiar with Tim Maroney's championing of the cigarette
smoker's cause.  He wants hard proof that cigarette smoking is harmful to
"normal healthy individuals."  None has been given and probably no one is
surprised.

Be that as it may, I would still like to see smoking banned in public
places.  I have asthma and PND (postnasal drip), and am incredibly allergic
to tobacco smoke.  I guess Tim would say I am obviously not healthy, though
I can think of precedents which would show cause that allergy or asthma in
itself if no reason to judge someone unhealthy.

One thing which is troublesome to one in my position is that it is often
difficult to coax a smoker into extinguishing a particularly offending
cigarette.  I hesitate to tell people I am allergic because they often
believe it is just a ruse, and I am trying to intrude on their personal
zone by making them put out their cigarette. [Godfrey Daniel what terrible
grammar]  Other smokers are quite polite.

Another problem is that of finding restaurants/bars to visit.  Many bars are
frequented by heavy smokers.  I often think about starting a NO-SMOKING BAR
because I get so stuffed up after leaving a typical bar that I can barely
breathe.  How many would consider going to a no-smoking bar?  Could this be
a profit-making venture?  Think of the possibilities for a pick-up bar
where you know that the people you are picking up won't, as they say,
taste like ashtrays.  Such a place might even be crashed by incognito
smokers.

In any event, I vote YES to no smoking in public places.

				joe wilson
				Univ. of Virginia
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