Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: notes version 1.1usg 6/21/82; site ihlpf.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!floyd!vax135!ariel!houti!hogpc!houxm!ihnp4!ihlpf!bormanp From: bormanp@ihlpf.UUCP Newsgroups: net.flame Subject: "Re: Smoking . . . (Slow Motion Suicide) - (nf)" Message-ID: <130@ihlpf.UUCP> Date: Mon, 13-Jun-83 10:00:44 EDT Article-I.D.: ihlpf.130 Posted: Mon Jun 13 10:00:44 1983 Date-Received: Wed, 15-Jun-83 10:59:25 EDT Organization: BTL Naperville, IL Lines: 33 #R:stolaf:-101300:ihlpf:17600004: 0:1417 ihlpf!burris Jun 13 9:39:00 1983 "...the burden of proof lies on the claimant..." Do you actually believe this nonsense or are you just arousing debate? When I am in a room with smokers, my eyes burn, my contacts fog up, my sinuses burn, my nose starts running and if I am eating, I find the smell quite a damper to my appetite. I hate to go to the beach and see it littered with cigarette butts. I hate to go into ANY public place and find cigarettes crushed out on the floor. I hate going into the rest room and finding a half dozen butts in the urinal. I hate being physically burned by someone who is waving their cigarette inadvertently. When enclosed in a vehicle with someone who is smoking I have found it makes me nauseous and gives me headaches. Considering all of this, I am now asked to PROVE that the smoker is causing DAMAGE to my health before I may ask for legislation to prevent my exposure to undesirable effects such as I have listed above. I agree that legislation is not a magical solution to problems and I honestly wish that ALL smokers would consider the annoyance that their smoking causes to others. However, I know that this will not happen. Therefore, I am now and will continue to be in favor of legislation which requires well ventilated non-smoker areas in enclosed public places which allow smoking OR to disallow smoking in these places if the requirements are not met. Dave Burris ihlpf!burris BTL - Naperville