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From: mading@puff.UUCP (Eric Mading)
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Date: Sat, 3-May-86 13:55:40 EDT
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> I confess, I was a caffiene junky.  10 to 15 cups a day, 3 to get
> started in the morning.  I woke up feeling horrible, headaches,
> dizzyness, general lethergy.  If I didn't get my coffee in the
> afternoon, I started having headaches and nausea.  About the time
> I switched jobs I decided to quit "cold turkey" and spent two weeks
> "drying out".  I don't drink coffee anymore.  An extreme case, but
> shows how one can be addicted to caffiene.  (Boy, it's a *lot* easier
> to get up in the morning now!)  I should point out that the addiction
> is *physical*.  I had physical symptoms of withdrawal when I didn't
> get my cup on time.
> 
Just because you are a caffinaholic doesn't make caffine bad or illegal.
Most people are not caffinaholics.  It might just be that you have a
physical condition that makes you addicted to caffiene, just like alcoholics
have a physical condition that makes them addicted to alcohol.
> Anyone who thinks smoking is not dangerous should watch my mother
> try to smoke and drive at the same time.  If she has to shift in
> a corner, the car zigs because she doesn't have enough hands to hold
> onto the wheel.  Again, an extreme case.  Lots of people smoke and
> drive successfully, or the freeways would look like junk yards.  But
> the distraction is still there.
> 
I strongly feel that smoking is dangerous, not only to smokers, but
to non-smokers who are present where a smoker is smoking.  That is
why I won't hire smokers.  There is no law that says that what I'm 
doing is illegal; I don't have to provide an area for smokers, I can
designate the entire office as a no-smoking area.  I also feel that
it should be illegal to have a lit cigarrette or cigar in the front
half of any motor vehicle, just like it should be illegal to have
an open container of alcohol in the car.  Smoking while driving is
just as dangerous as driving while under the influence of alcohol.

Eric Mading.
> idea is not to avoid hiring people that are doing addictive dangerous
> drugs, but to avoid hiring people that are doing addictive dangerous
> *illegal* drugs.  The motivation is political, not practical.
> 
> 
> 				Ron
> -- 
> --
> 		Ronald O. Christian (Fujitsu America Inc., San Jose, Calif.)
> 		seismo!amdahl!fai!ronc  -or-   ihnp4!pesnta!fai!ronc
> 
> Oliver's law of assumed responsibility:
> 	"If you are seen fixing it, you will be blamed for breaking it."