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From: fsks@unc.UUCP (Frank Silbermann)
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Subject: Re: Re: ATTIS's force reduction:  A Modest Proposal
Message-ID: <54@unc.unc.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 10-Sep-85 09:47:24 EDT
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Posted: Tue Sep 10 09:47:24 1985
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Reply-To: fsks@unc.UUCP (Frank Silbermann)
Organization: CS Dept, U. of N. Carolina, Chapel Hill
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>>          I liken smokers to people who never take baths.  If you had a 
>>          co-worker who never took baths, would you accept his right to
>>          pollute the air with foul odors, or would you hope that he got
>>          canned when the next "force reduction" rolled around ?

>There is a group of people that should be first on the reduction list:
>those who fart, usually right at the beginning of a 4 hour meeting.
>Let's get rid of those polluters FIRST!!	:-)

Unpleasantness is in the mind of the beholder.  Let's not restrict smokers
for their unpleasantness.  Rather, let's ban indoor public smoking because
of its danger to non-smokers' health.

	Frank Silbermann