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From: marco@andromeda.UUCP (Louis Marco)
Newsgroups: net.flame
Subject: Re:  Smoking, etc.
Message-ID: <13@andromeda.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 4-Oct-85 21:02:57 EDT
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Posted: Fri Oct  4 21:02:57 1985
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Organization: Rutgers University, Newark, N.J.
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In article <34@calma.uucp>, smithson@calma.uucp (Brian Smithson) writes:
> 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? ...
> >
> >...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.
> >
> 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!  

     If the air quality inside a building isn't better than the air outside,
   why do they tell people to stay indoors during smog alerts ?

   (So if they pass out, they won't get run over by any nasty polluting
    automobiles, of course :-) )
                                                         Lou Marco
                                                      CCIS,Rutgers,Newark