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From: lautzy@nmtvax.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.flame,net.legal
Subject: Smoking in public?
Message-ID: <473@nmtvax.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 6-May-85 07:39:24 EDT
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Posted: Mon May  6 07:39:24 1985
Date-Received: Fri, 10-May-85 08:09:39 EDT
Reply-To: lautzy@nmtvax.UUCP (Steven Lautzenheiser)
Organization: Society for the Prevention of Golfball Abuse
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Sorry if this has been posted before, but it just came up in my "life":

I was hacking one morning (around 3:30am) with a friend, and someone came
in the user area and started smoking.  My friend is very bothered by this,
and asked the person to please stop (very nicely, I thought).  She flatly
refused, saying "You're just playing games, I'm doing school work.  Nobody's
going to stop me from getting my education!" (sic).  Two other people in the
room agreed with my friend (including me) that it bothered them too, but she
said that she would "chain-smoke" since it bothered us so much.  She even at
one point half threatened us (with physical violence, even!)

Now what I want to know is: Is there anything we can do about this?  There
used to be a no-smoking sign in the user area (someone tore it down), but the 
person said she wouldn't pay attention to it, anyway.  What do you do with 
people like this?  I don't relish the thought of getting cancer just because
someone wanted to "toke it up" in my presence! (These WERE only regular 
cigarettes, but still...)

Any comments out there?

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                                -Lautzy (Romulan)
                              ...unmvax!nmtvax!guads

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