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From: pso@utastro.UUCP (P Samuel Odoms)
Newsgroups: net.flame
Subject: Thank you for your flames
Message-ID: <101@utastro.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 16-May-85 16:25:53 EDT
Article-I.D.: utastro.101
Posted: Thu May 16 16:25:53 1985
Date-Received: Sun, 19-May-85 00:13:38 EDT
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Organization: U. Texas, Astronomy, Austin, TX
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	I hope the government does make smoking illegal.  I hope they start
	spraying tobacco plants with paraquat, the way the Mexicans did with
	their marijuana.  Why??  So that those damn cancer sticks can kill you
	off at an even faster rate than they are already.  And so those who
	are inconsiderately forced to breathe your second hand smoke can
	breathe a sigh of relief as you are dragged off, coughing and
	wheezing, to the hospital.

What a very nice flame I just received.  I have decided to make this letter
public (yet keeping it anonymous) just so we all can see the new prohibitionist
movement starting up.  I stated in my second note that I don't smoke in
public.  I also responded to another letter that I don't smoke in friend's
houses unless it was OK to do so.  This person would like to kill off anyone
and everyone who smokes regardless of when, where, and how they smoked.

And even if the tobacco plants were sprayed with paraquat like marijuana was,
we will probably continue to smoke and at the same time take the US government
to court.  Paraquat did not prevent us from smoking grass, it will not
prevent us smoking tobacco.

And to the person who didn't like my language: FOAD, please.

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