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In article <95cf3e$khl$1@news.inet.tele.dk>,
	"Carl Drud" <carl-drud@bigfoot.com> writes:
> 
> "Lech K. Lesiak" <lklesiak@calcna.ab.ca> skrev:
>> On Thu, 1 Feb 2001, Marky wrote:
>> 
>> > Most anti-smokers believe that everyone who does not smoke is actually an
>> > anti-smoker, giving themselves a feeling of company. Even though most
>> 
>> In my experience they are anti-smoker.  The main difference is that most
>> non-smokers are simply not as dedicated to The Cause as we Jack-Booted,
>> human-rights-denying, obnoxious, slimey, lying activists.
> 
> You forgot child abusers.:
> 
> "Friendship Heights Mayor Faces Sex Charge 
> Longtime Civic Leader, Physician Pushed for Nation's Strictest Tobacco Ban"
> 
> "Alfred Muller, the longtime mayor of Friendship Heights who championed the 
> nation's strictest tobacco ban in the Montgomery County village, turned himself 
> in to D.C. police last night after being charged with second-degree sexual abuse 
> involving a juvenile, police said."
> 
I'm sure this comes as a huge surprise to you, but local self-government
has existed on this side of the ocean for a long time. Laws in towns
like Friendship Heights, MD, are made by town councils, not mayors.
The tobacco industry has been able to prevent this from happening in
a few states, but Maryland definitely isn't one of them.

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Bob Broughton
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