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To: Protagoras
But I wish you would stop smoking.

Why is that, I wonder? You do not pay my bills or support me.

I am not abusive. I am not gay. I am a Christian. I am a Conservative. I live on the right side of the law.

Why do you want to take something away from me that I enjoy and is still a legal commodity to buy?

102 posted on 11/19/2004 7:29:48 AM PST by SheLion (God bless and protect our troops. I love them one and all!)
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To: SheLion
Why is that, I wonder?

Because I like you and I think that your health has been negatively impacted by smoking cigarettes. In fact, I know that to be true even if you don't agree with it. The truth is, your health would be relatively better if you didn't smoke, and even better if you never had. The chemicals in smoke have deleterious effects on the human body.

I said I wish, not that I have any standing to make such a suggestion, but that's what the thread is about.

Why do you want to take something away from me that I enjoy and is still a legal commodity to buy?

You need to take off your boxing gloves, I don't want to take anything away from you. And legality has nothing whatsoever to do with it, you would have the right to do it even if it was illegal. Laws don't change rights.

You have the right to smoke, but no right to have people wish you didn't.

183 posted on 11/19/2004 8:57:25 AM PST by Protagoras (No wonder we have problems, big tents have lots of clowns inside)
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