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From: bd@peora.UUCP (Bernie Dougan)
Newsgroups: net.flame
Subject: Re: LIGHTING UP
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Date: Fri, 24-May-85 08:46:38 EDT
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Posted: Fri May 24 08:46:38 1985
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>     Oh, come off it. Jesus Christ, I have never seen a bigger bunch of self-
> righteous pinheads than those of you who have nothing better to do than show
> the rest of the world you have nothing better to do but make total airheads out
> of yourselves. This is a free, repeat, free country. If I wanna smoke in it I
> can. And do. Dartmouth College has very few smokers in it and I'm used to hear-
> ing all of your arguments, tired and hackneyed as they are.  Oh, we'd cost you
> millions of dollars in medicare and welfare. Bullshit. We'd cost you even more
> if your state no longer got its revenue from its tobacco tax. Yeah, and you're
> polluting *my* air. Right. Then just get the hell away from me. If you're so
> concerned about the atmosphere stop driving your car. A five-minute drive puts
> thousands of times more pollutants in the air than one cigarette. The one I like
> best is the one that says I'm going to kill myself. Great. That makes one less
> smoker in the world. All you guys should be bloody ecstatic.
>     It just bugs the shit out of me when grown adults can't tolerate a habit of
> others. Jesus. You're all so high and mighty. Go ahead, you just try and legis-
> late tobacco and cigarettes out of existence. Good luck. And while you're trying
> that, we still have to listen to you whine and bitch about smoke. Look. You don't
> like my smoke? Get the fuck away from me. If you're the kind of person who can
> see past the surface at the person behind the cigarette you won't.  But if you're
> the sort of superficial ass hole currently clogging the net who will judge me for
> the sole reason that I have a cigarette in my hand, I don't want you near
> me anyway.
>                                               --Ross
> -- 
> _____________________________________________________________________________
>                                            Ross Jacobs
>                                     {ihnp4,decvax,linus}!dartvax!rossj
>                                       ARPA:  rossj%dartmouth@csnet-relay
>                                      CSNET:  rossj@dartmouth
>  
>                Always be good. But if you can't be good, be careful...(-:
> ______________________________________________________________________________


I think the Tobacco Institute should hire this eloquent gentleman to be
a spokesman (-:
-- 


     Bernie Dougan
     Perkin-Elmer Southern Development Center
     2486 Sand Lake Road
     Orlando, Florida 32809
     (305)850-1040
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