Re: Smoking laws

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From: Scott Nudds
Date: Tue, 19 Mar 1996 00:00

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John McCarthy (jmc@Steam.stanford.edu) wrote:
: My opinion is that the danger from
: self-righteousness is larger than the danger from smoking, but there
: is also a simple desire to speak what I see as the truth about a
: psychological characteristic of a part of the anti-smoking movement.

  What metric do you use to measure the danger of "self-righteousness" Mr 
McCarthy?  I would like to see the numbers you used to evaluate the inequity.

  A number that I remember hearing today is that about 23,000 people die 
yearly in the U.S. as a result of smoking.  Please provide the number of 
people you estimate die in the U.S. due to "self-righteousness" along 
with the methods you used to abtain your numbers.


: The persecution of not allowing any restaurants in Palo Alto to allow
: smoking.

  Language abuse seems to be one of your specialties Mr McCarthy.  The 
term "persecution" is not appropriately attributed to protecting 
someone's health.  Please provide us with the logic behind your 
misapplication of the term.


: You could require such a restaurant to display a sign with a warning on it.

  And you could force Jews to wear a star of David.  Persecution?

  I await your numbers Mr. McCarthy, but I suspect that as always, you 
don't have the numbers, are therefore incapable of doing the arithmetic 
and are typically talking nonsense.



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From: af329@freenet.hamilton.on.ca (Scott Nudds)
Subject: Re: Smoking laws
Date: 1996/03/19
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