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- From: carlp@frigg.isc-br.com (Carl Paukstis)
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- Subject: Re: Just a Question
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- Date: 7 Jan 93 00:25:38 GMT
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- acheng@ncsa.uiuc.edu (Albert Cheng) writes:
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- >carlp@frigg.isc-br.com (Carl Paukstis) writes:
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- >>A political rather than scientific decision, as with ALL other effects
- >>of the War on (Some) Drugs. Remember the test strategy for Saccharin?
- >>Feed rats the equuivalent of a human drinking mumble-hundred diet
- >>colas a day for 30 years, and 10% of them get cancer. Similar with
- >>secondhand smoke. While it certainly is annoying, even to me (a
- >>smoker), the only likely sufferers of health effects are children of
- >>smoking parents or other folks with similar intense, prolonged (years)
- >>exposure.
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- >>Go ahead, flame away - health Nazis give me the retching vomits.
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- >You know, I really don't mind people smoke as long as they don't
- >exhale it back to the air I need to breath. Would you like me
- >eat beans and release gas at your face?
-
- Weak flame; now refute my comments :-) I'd find it an annoying personal
- habit and persuade you to stop, in my presence at least. I wouldn't
- ask the Federal Bureau of Wasting Money to "protect" me from you.
- Though I suspect the health effects of prolonged inhalation of mammal
- methane are more profound than for second-hand cigarette smoke.
-
- I'm _extremely_ unlikely to blow smoke in anyone's face, provided they
- refrain from making trite, senseless comments like yours above. Ask
- me to stop and I will. I won't ask to smoke in your car or your home
- (nor will I do it without asking). I'll abide by sensible rules
- regulating where and when I may smoke in public places. I'll go quite
- far out of my way to accomodate people who have a problem with my
- smoking and are reasonably polite about it. But this seeming drive to
- demonize tobacco smoke, like other recreational drugs have been demonized,
- for purely political purposes, makes me absolutely crazy.
-
- Folks just can't see it in the same light as excess perfume, playing
- loud music, failure to bathe, farting, or other annoying personal habits
- you don't want people to practice around you. Cigarette smoking is much
- more pervasive, of course, so Something Must Be Done! Whatever bogus
- research is required will be produced to support Something Being Done.
-
- Government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to
- take it all away. I hope you like what you're allowed.
-
- --
- Carl Paukstis, RRR&RSG |"The good news is that Clinton will have to
- Olivetti North America/Spokane,WA | work hard to do worse than Bush in terms
- Phone: +1 509 927-5439 | of economic policy. The bad news is that
- Mail: carlp@mail.spk.olivetti.com | he will probably manage to do so"-Ed Ipser
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