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From: valenz@bnl.UUCP (Greg Valenzuela)
Newsgroups: net.flame
Subject: Re: Smoking in the Workplace
Message-ID: <355@bnl.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 26-Feb-84 00:21:42 EST
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Posted: Sun Feb 26 00:21:42 1984
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   It is certainly true that smokers can suffer from withdrawal 
symptoms when trying to quit, as would someone trying to kick any
other drug habit. There is, however, a clear distinction between 
the effects on the smoker of not smoking, and the effects of smoke
on the non-smoker. Very simply, the damage to the non-smoker is of
a permanent and possibly eventually life-threatening nature, while
withdrawal symptoms are merely temporary.
   I am not familiar with the details of the San Francisco law,
which seems to ban totally any smoking in offices at the request of
non-smokers, and can't say whether it's the best solution to the 
problem. It seems to me that this law doesn't keep people from
smoking, rather, it forces them to leave the work area to do it.
In that sense, it doesn't cause smokers to go through withdrawal.

                                   Greg Valenzuela
                                   Dept. of Physics
                                   SUNY@StonyBrook

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