Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!genrad!decvax!harpo!floyd!vax135!cornell!uw-beaver!tektronix!ucbcad!ucbvax!cbosgd!mark From: mark@cbosgd.UUCP Newsgroups: net.flame Subject: Re: Where there's smoke there's...... Message-ID: <59@cbosgd.UUCP> Date: Thu, 23-Jun-83 23:06:41 EDT Article-I.D.: cbosgd.59 Posted: Thu Jun 23 23:06:41 1983 Date-Received: Mon, 27-Jun-83 17:57:49 EDT Lines: 35 In a public place, one can always move away from a smoker. In an office, you cannot. Yet another gem of a mental midget. Counterexample: I go out to a restaurant at 7 PM on Friday. The place is packed. I have to wait an hour for a table. A table finally opens up, and I sit down with my party. 5 minutes later, someone at the next table lights up. Where am I going to move? Furthermore, they were there first. Makes it kind of hard to tell them that they have to put it out - where are THEY going to move? They need their nicotine fix just as bad as I need my fresh air. (Ever been in a hospital cancer ward and seen people who have had their larnyx removed from throat cancer caused by smoking? They can't speak, but they can and do hold their cigarettes up to the hole in their throat to get that nicotine! Someone who has never smoked, like me, cannot possibly understand the strength of the addiction involved.) Will some smoker please explain just what it is about smoking while eating? I notice that most smokers seem to think that a meal without a smoke is like a paycheck without a signature. I personally can't comprehend this - food is the one thing I want to be clean, aromatic, and appetizing. Smoke kills all of this. Picture the busboy coming through every 5 minutes spraying everyone with bug spray. Yum, right? To a nonsmoker, this is about the same as having the next table light up. Why do smokers insist on several smokes during a meal? My father in law has a sticker in his car reading "Danger: No Smoking". When asked what the danger is, he replies "My fist hitting your face." I'd like to get a big sign like this for my office, although I have no idea where. Mark Horton