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From: inc@fluke.UUCP (Gary Benson)
Newsgroups: net.flame
Subject: Re: Disgusted by Non-Smokers
Message-ID: <311@tpvax.fluke.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 11-Jul-84 12:23:24 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jul 11 12:23:24 1984
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Well, I'm a smoker, and have always tried not to inflict my nasty habit on
you fresh-air fiends, and this conversations just seems so lop-sided that I
want to throw my 2 pfennigs-worth in.

First, I am only too happy not to soil your personal environment with what
is admittedly a disgusting habit for anyone who doesn't partake. I *always*
ask when I am in your cars and houses. All you have to do is tell me no, and
I don't do it. I think you'll find that the majority of smokers (even those
who don't ask first) are willingto forego the weed if asked to. Once I
visited a friend for a week, and he asked that if I wanted to smoke, pelase
go outside. I did for the whole week; I think you'll find most smokers
are (at least with all the hoopla lately) sensitive to those kinds of
requests, and willing to comply with your legitimate request not to have
your air polluted.

Secondly, I'm getting tired of the kind of blatant garbage that many of you
are spouting about "ALL smokers are jerks who should be shoved out a car
door if they light up". Some of us aren't like that.


(One of my favorite poems is by Rudyard Kipling, a tongue-in-cheek paean to
the "great god Nick-O-Tine", in which our hero's wife is giving an ultimatum
-either me or the cigar. He lights up, ruminates, and decides on the cigar -
the poem ends with the line:

    For a woman is only a woman,
    But a good cigar is a Smoke.

                                        ;-)


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