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From: pso@utastro.UUCP (P Samuel Odoms)
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Subject: Re: Thank you for your flames
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Date: Thu, 23-May-85 19:25:58 EDT
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> > [Deleted comments from "smoking costs the public and employers
> >  billions of dollars a year" Trisha]
> 
> 	Would you like to see this logic applied to junk food? Overeating?
> Booze? Sunbathing (skin cancer)? Skiing (my knee's getting better, thanks)?
> Promiscuity (health risks)? Need I go on?
> 	God help us when we lose our freedom to be wrong, to be stupid,
> and to act against our own best interests. I know no man is an island,
> and that I indirectly pay for the foolishness of others. But I'll pay
> that price willingly in return for the freedom to engage in a little
> foolishness of my own.

Thank you, Kenn Barry.  This very nicely states some of what I feel.
I just wasn't able to say it nicely.


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