Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utcsstat.UUCP Path: utzoo!utcsstat!laura From: laura@utcsstat.UUCP Newsgroups: net.flame Subject: Re: bars without smoking - (nf) Message-ID: <767@utcsstat.UUCP> Date: Sat, 9-Jul-83 03:56:39 EDT Article-I.D.: utcsstat.767 Posted: Sat Jul 9 03:56:39 1983 Date-Received: Sun, 10-Jul-83 02:20:28 EDT References: <148@inmet.UUCP> Organization: U. of Toronto, Canada Lines: 31 One problem I see with the view that non-smokers are handicapped or have some disability like acne is that a lot of the people who dont smoke dont smoke because it causes cancer. That makes them bright. Of course, in a society designed for morons, intelligence is a handicap. I figure that the real problem is that non-smokers are too tolerant. There are still more non-smokers than smokers, after all. I dont know how many people dont smoke and dont care. Rather than a telethon, how about boycotting places that have no non-smoking sections? How about telling every smoker you see in a restaurant how revolted you are by his habit? After all, the discomfort they must feel being told that they are revolting is comperable to the discomfort I feel having to sit next to them. If enough establishments wake up, then we can have no-smoking sections in restaurants and bars. And we wont need another law in the already too-damn-crowded lawbooks. Of course, if most people wont object to smokers and establishments that dont provide no-smoking sections then all I do is in vain; and people who can get up off their butts and change things without resorting to government intervention will all suffer because of too many people who dont know how to do anything unless they have the strong arm of the law right behind you. How many people get thrown into jail in Canada or the USA for insulting others? very few, I am told. So why be so tolerant of smokers? You dont need a law to accomplish everything, folks... Laura Creighton utzoo!utcsstat!laura