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From: bobn@bmcg.UUCP (Bob Nebert)
Newsgroups: net.misc
Subject: Re: Re: Banning Smoking - A New WA state law (Hooray!!)
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Date: Tue, 27-Aug-85 19:35:05 EDT
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> > > Yet another attack on personal liberty.  Segregation of smokers is a
> > > reasonable way to preserve the rights of non-smokers, but banning smoking
> > > altogether in almost all public places?  No smoking in between stores in a
> > > mall?  When will Washington pass a law requiring it's citizens to take
> > > their vitamins and eat their vegetables?
> > 
> > Not taking ones vitamins does not interfere with the health and comfort of
> > other people, as does smoking in public places.  In a mall or other such
> > environment, it is rather difficult to segregate smokers and non-smokers.
> > -- 
> > 				    Joe Arceneaux
> 
> Smoking or taking ones vitamins IS NOT the issue.  It was call an attack
> on personal liberty.  Attack on personal liberty.  Hell that is an act of
> war !!! Kept your laws off my body.  I am a not smoker and have always been.
> It drives me up the wall for people to smoke around me.  
> 
> 	Darryl Wagoner

I am a smoker but maybe I'm one of a dying (no pun) breed. I ALWAYS ask
people around me if they mind if I smoke. I never blow smoke in peoples
face and in general am considerate of other peoples lungs and RIGHTS.

The point is by somebody reinforcing nonsmokers rights, I, NOT BY MY CHOICE, 
have given up some of ny rights. Even if it to kill myself by smoking, 
it is still LEGAL. If I'm smoking in a place where smoking is permitted,
and you come up to me and say "Put it out" I say No, go somewhere else.