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To: Figment; SVTCobra03

All the non-smokers I know were once smokers and all of them admit they enjoy the 2nd hand smoke.

Now, people have been telling me I would die young and I am past 70 1/2. People have been telling me I would end up with crepe paper skin and now they are amazed to learn my age because I am told I don’t look it. I am perfectly willing to continue paying my own health care costs, since I have paid both sides of Medicare/SS forever, still pay because I am still vital enough to work and since I have only seen an MD for an injury in the past couple of years, take no medications and prior to the ER visit had seen a physician 3x in ten years to have a wart removed, I am obviously not a drain on our nation’s precious health resources. I am in fact, a net contributor in both taxes and health insurance premiums.

I am not alone nor am I some rare exception. I have watched non-smokers die of lung cancer and other terrible cancers.

So, SVTCobra03, I get that you detest all tobacco use. That is as much your right as it is my right and that of others to use tobacco. Figment spoke truth: non-smokers may leave the room if there are smokers present who are indulging.


43 posted on 08/02/2013 4:40:07 PM PDT by reformedliberal
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To: reformedliberal
...I am not alone nor am I some rare exception...

So you DON'T believe smoking is hazardous to your health?

Seriously?

47 posted on 08/02/2013 4:44:12 PM PDT by Drango (A liberal's compassion is limited only by the size of someone else's wallet.)
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To: reformedliberal

Sure, if it’s a private house and the owners don’t mind the putrid smell of stale cigarette smoke pervading and lowering the value of the property, that’s fine.

If it is a public facility or when where employees would be exposed to the smoke, not so much.


59 posted on 08/02/2013 5:05:08 PM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: reformedliberal

I was a smoker, a toker and a midnight joker.


108 posted on 08/02/2013 7:26:34 PM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
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