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From: smithson@calma.uucp (Brian Smithson)
Newsgroups: net.flame
Subject: Re:  Smoking, etc.
Message-ID: <34@calma.uucp>
Date: Mon, 30-Sep-85 13:49:41 EDT
Article-I.D.: calma.34
Posted: Mon Sep 30 13:49:41 1985
Date-Received: Fri, 4-Oct-85 04:41:12 EDT
References: <802@homxb.UUCP> <146@mcgill-vision.UUCP> <26@calma.uucp> <569@wjvax.UUCP>
Reply-To: smithson@calma.UUCP (Brian Smithson)
Organization: GE/Calma Co., R&D Systems Engineering, Milpitas, CA
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In article <569@wjvax.UUCP> ron@wjvax.UUCP (Ron Christian) writes:
>>... I'll start listening to you about
>>second-hand smoke when you stop driving your car!  Do you think that smog 
>>alerts are caused by people lighting up? ...
>
>Time for me to jump in.  One should be cautious when making parallels like
>this, because it only takes a little reflection for giant holes to start
>appearing in your logic.  I could go on and on about this, but suffice it
>to say that I don't run my car next to your desk, and you don't have to smoke
>to get to work.
>
>Don't be an idiot if you can help it.
>
Sorry about that.  I guess I couldn't help being an idiot.  Imagine, thinking
that the air quality next to your desk (or mine) was somehow related to the
air quality outside of the building!  Silly me (cough, gasp) I'm so embarrased!
Please accept my gratitude for your truly inspiring display of logic.  My lungs
feel better already (hack, wheeze).
-- 

		-Brian Smithson
		 Calma Company 
		 ucbvax!calma!smithson
		 calma!smithson@ucbvax.ARPA

None of this has anything to do with General Electric or Calma Company.


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