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Re: In 3 Days - Will you smoke at your favorite bar ?

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From: hc23hc
Date: Wed, 07 Jan 1998 00:00
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Spam-HATER wrote:
> 
> Jafo wrote:
> 
> [snip]
> 
> >
> > >And if that isn't immune from this "regulation", then I can imagine
> > >what the busybodies and their gov't lackeys would want to "regulate".
> >
> > Why, that's easy.  Alcohol.
> 
>   Take it in a different direction - why not regulate the
> ownership of SUVs? Their large mass can wither the metal of
> a smaller vehicle they collide with, would they not? Never
> mind that collisions are the result of bad driving practices,
> just allow only people who have a verifiable reason to own
> an SUV.
> 
>   How about banning the consumption of fat? Excessive fat intake
> has been identified to cause health problems later on in life,
> so in order to "protect" the health of the general public, fat
> can be done away with, regardless of what anybody thinks.

Some people say that about immigrants.
 
>   The point is, the little things that the general public
> doesn't think twice about now are slowly being wrested away,
> bit by bit, right under their noses, under the guise of
> "safety" and/or "health". 

Or because BajaRat said so.

> The possibilities are endless.

Indeed.
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Subject: Re: In 3 Days - Will you smoke at your favorite bar ?
Date: 1998/01/07
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