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From: fsks@unc.UUCP (Frank Silbermann)
Newsgroups: net.flame,net.legal
Subject: Re: Smoking in public?
Message-ID: <186@unc.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 9-May-85 13:28:41 EDT
Article-I.D.: unc.186
Posted: Thu May  9 13:28:41 1985
Date-Received: Sat, 11-May-85 02:14:03 EDT
References: <nmtvax.473>
Reply-To: fsks@unc.UUCP (Frank Silbermann)
Organization: CS Dept., U. of N. Carolina at Chapel Hill
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Summary: 

In article <nmtvax.473> lautzy@nmtvax.UUCP (Steven Lautzenheiser) writes:
>
>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...)
>

Why were you afraid of physical violence?  You had her outnumbered!

How about keeping a pail of water on hand for putting out such fires!

	Frank Silbermann