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To: Gabz
You, on the other hand, provide nothing more than your personal opinion that you attempt to make look like fact.

I want to express my appreciation for your lofty consideration of my intellect, but I must say again: I did not invent the notion that your rights end where they abrogate the rights of someone else.

You don't have a right to smoke where the consequences of your choice are forced on me. Period.

That's why these ordinances are going to continue to proliferate, and that's why in about ten years, the thought that one used to have to put up with cigarette smoke in a restaurant will be as repugnant as the thought that once you had to put up with cigarette smoke in the workplace.

You're on the wrong side of history. I would advise you to try and learn to live with it.

One way might be to stop smoking. It would be good for you, and for those who live with you. It would extend your child's life a few years, and make it more likely that SHE will not smoke.

If you really ARE the superlative parent that you insist you are, you would take all that much more seriously than you have so far.

349 posted on 03/03/2003 3:46:52 PM PST by Illbay
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To: Illbay
Good Grief - please grow up and realize that the world does not revolve around you. Even my 4 year old knows that "ME ME ME" does not work.

You don't have a right to smoke where the consequences of your choice are forced on me. Period.

Get a grip on reality - if you enter my private property your rights consist of what I say they consist of - PERIOD. The same goes for me if I enter your private property.

Tell me again what I should do with my life and that of my family and I will report you for abuse - got it??? You know nothing about me - just as I know nothing about you. Until such time as you have walked in my shoes and lived my life - keep your nose out of it. Got that???

If you want a non-smoking bar or restaurant to frequent - talk the owners of the establishment or open your own - keep the government out of it.

357 posted on 03/03/2003 5:14:57 PM PST by Gabz (anti-smokers speak with forked tongue.)
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To: Illbay; Gabz; bonfire; AlabamaRebel
HORSE HILLARY! My dad and grandfathers smoked. None of the grandkids CHOOSE to. Yes Billy, grownups (translated as non Mormons) make things called decisions: do I drink coffee (hell yes!), do I smoke (nopers) do i have a beer (yup)... Mormons are told what to drink, what underwear to wear and many other decisions adults can make all by themselves.
387 posted on 03/03/2003 7:56:23 PM PST by CARepubGal
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