Re: Smoking laws

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From: Thomas Muckley
Date: Sun, 17 Mar 1996 00:00

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jmc@Steam.stanford.edu (John McCarthy) wrote:

>There are good arguments against smoking, but the anti-smoking
>movement has acquired strong elements of a persecution and attracts
>people with inclinations to persecute other people.  Many of us
>non-smokers find the movement more objectionable than other people
>smoking.  Moreover, people who practice persecution on smokers may
>enjoy it enough to look for other targets and do even more harm.

>I think the movement should be encouraged to lay off.

>-- 
>John McCarthy, Computer Science Department, Stanford, CA 94305
>*
>He who refuses to do arithmetic is doomed to talk nonsense.
>http://www-formal.stanford.edu/jmc/progress/

Amen.

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From: muckley@mail.hsonline.net (Thomas Muckley)
Subject: Re: Smoking laws
Date: 1996/03/17
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