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To: traditional1
While smoke DOES tend to pentrate and remain in clothing, even after laundering, the idea that this somehow entitles LAWS and SCORN to be applied ONLY to a certain class of people is to be total over-kill, for the sake of inconvienience/tastes of others.

Oh, I don't think that in any way calls for government involvement; it's more on the level of someone who doesn't shower or use deodorant for a couple day--a social faux pas, but not a crime.

As far as meetings go, I have tolerated the smells of various non-smokers and tolerated the disgusting (to me) stuff that some health-nuts and enviro/health/fitness whacko's insist on eating/drinking, and while I find it OFFENSIVE TO ME, I have yet to see masses of them attacked by smokers/others for their tastes.

No, but normal people do snicker about them behind their backs. :-)

256 posted on 07/20/2006 11:13:36 AM PDT by Young Scholar
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To: Young Scholar
"No, but normal people do snicker about them behind their backs. :-)"Well, I'm not even going there on the "normal people" comment, but.....

Snickering behind their back would be GREAT for smokers, if that's what was going on today in reality.

It's the PC/Bandwagon-hoppers with the "in your face" attacks that have caused smokers to confront the accusers now, and that's too bad. Peaceful co-existence between smokers and non-smokers is sadly gone, as the assault on rights of individuals has been taken way out of bounds to the extent that LAWS against freedoms are being enacted, to the cheers of the anti-smoker fanatics.

257 posted on 07/20/2006 11:18:19 AM PDT by traditional1
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