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From: bj@yale-com.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.flame
Subject: Re: "Re: Smoking . . . (Slow Motion Suicide) - (nf)"
Message-ID: <1634@yale-com.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 17-Jun-83 21:16:54 EDT
Article-I.D.: yale-com.1634
Posted: Fri Jun 17 21:16:54 1983
Date-Received: Sun, 19-Jun-83 14:58:15 EDT
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    I'm sorry.  Do you have	a medical problem, like	an allergy to smoke or
    something?  I've made it clear that I consider someone who knowingly
    and willingly smokes near a person  who	has some disabling condition
    that makes the smoke physically	intolerable should be considered
    guilty of assault.  Why	don't you ask them to put out their
    cigarettes?  Do	you have to have a cop at your back?

Oh, so it has to be disabling to be illegal?  I assume you are against
penalties for slashing people in the face with knives since that doesn't
have to disable them?

There is no need to have a medical problem to be bothered by smoke.
Smoke can cause watery eyes and headaches for people without special problems.

    As for your esthetic distaste for finding crushed cigarette butts:
    that's a pretty	flimsy basis for something as serious as a law.

There already are laws against this -- laws against littering.  I don't
feel that cigarette butts should get a special law, but large numbers of
smokers are slobs.

    I happen not to like the way fat people look (apologies to fat readers
    -- I just can't	help it), but that doesn't mean	I want to ban them
    from public transportation, or from eating in good resaraunts.

There are differences between being fat and smoking.  First, being fat
is not something you can turn on or off, while a person can not smoke. 
Second, having a fat person near you does not affect you physically,
while having a smoker next to you can.

					B.J.
					Herbison-BJ@Yale
					decvax!yale-comix!herbison-bj