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From: root@trwatf.UUCP (Lord Frith)
Newsgroups: net.flame,net.legal
Subject: Re: Smoking in public?
Message-ID: <917@trwatf.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 9-May-85 15:50:17 EDT
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Posted: Thu May  9 15:50:17 1985
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> 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.

Install a Halon system in the computer room.  Here at the ATF we have a
fire-control system that will dump 1000 lbs of Halon at extreme
pressure should the fire system detect even a whiff of smoke.  The
Halon smothers the flames by eliminating all of the oxygen in the
room.

Halon "dispensers" are REALLY impressive when they go off because they
send just about everything that isn't bolted down, flying.  Within 30
seconds there won't be enough oxygen in the room to support a poodle,
much less a human being.  Each re-charge also costs about $10,000 so
you do this ONLY on New-Years eve partys.

No one smokes in MY facility.
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