🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <3tmm7c$hjh@masala.cc.uh.edu>, eleea77@Rosie.UH.EDU wrote:

> In article <hhm154-0807950946190001@lucky138.acns.nwu.edu>,
hhm154@lulu.acns.nwu.edu (J Howard) writes:
> >> In article <3tfqvu$nc5@wndrsvr.la.ca.us>, news@wndrsvr.la.ca.us (news)
> >> wrote:
> >> 
> >> > 
> >> > Yes, I hate tobacco, and the people that pollute my air, my clothing,
> >> > my body, my hair and my lungs with their stenchful (new word) cancer
> >> > causing fumes.  I see no reason to like the situation, and I'm 
> >> > obviously not alone.
> >> > 
> >> > As for the relative merits of smoking... there aren't any.  There's
> >> > nothing to discuss.  If you want to pollute your body and your home
> >> > that's certainly your right, but it's my right to leave a restaraunt
> >> > without having to run home to take a shower because I stink from
> >> > your exhalations.
> >
> >Perhaps you'd like me to take a dip.  How 'bout the fragrant odor of Skoal
> >longcut and warm spittle wafting across the table?  Maybe a clear glass or
> >plastic spit bottle, sitting right on the table in a holder where the ash
> >trays used to be?  Ummm, that's good eating.  Wake up you environmental
> >Nazi:  the world does not revolve around Uranus.
> 
>        Nor yours.  Actually, if you want to dip, feel free.  The scent
>        doesn't carry nearly so far, and I don't HAVE to watch you.  It
>        is much easier to avert one's glance than to breath different air.
>        Your missing the point entirely!  If you want to pollute yourself,
>        go right ahead, just do it without polluting ME!  Why some smokersfeel
>        they should be allowed to make other people miserable to indulge
>        in a habit that they acquired of their own free will, I will never
>        understand! 

The free will cuts both ways:  why should I be deprived because of what
you want?  Do you resent public transportation patrons because their buses
emit equally noxious gasses (how 'bout a little sulfur with your
atmosphere)?  Let's ban them, and while were at it how about cars and
factories and the coal fired electricity plant that made your post
possible...actually that's not a bad idea.  A modern civilized world has
its downside, if that means a little smoke deal with it-- it's not the end
of the world.

-- 
"Blackhawks, Bosox, Cubs, Maduro, and Makers...  I'm a bigggg fannnn"

   J Howard--  Perpetual Student, Writer, Raconteur, and Lazy Ass.