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From: regard@ttidcc.UUCP (Adrienne Regard)
Newsgroups: net.flame
Subject: smoking in public
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Date: Thu, 23-May-85 10:31:25 EDT
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Posted: Thu May 23 10:31:25 1985
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*flame on to a delicious simmer*

Here's an interesting tidbit for the flaming smokers out there who want the
non-smokers to leave them alone and clean up pollution instead:

The Amer.  Cancer Society wanted to help put this kind of argument in
perspective.  They report that living in an area with densely polluted
air, 24 hours a day for a year is the equivalent of smoking 1 1/2 packs
of cigarettes - over that same year period.

May I point out to smokers (both polite and un-) that you are currently
a minority.  Polite smokers won't be hasselled (hopefully) by non-smokers,
but flaming jerks of smokers who insist on lighting up in violation of
the rights of breathers may find the breathers going to their congressional
representatives more and more, and making their opinion into law.

One quick way to lose personal freedoms is to abuse them.

*flame off, the coals are smoking, now*