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To: saganite
Smokers are the only minority group on earth that it's OK to discriminate against.<>How are these people being discriminated against?

Tobacco smoke is noxious and destructive. For people who enjoy smoking, that's fine. I don't care.

I have zero interest in harassing smokers, or restricting what they do.

However, if they are destroying the furniture and clothing of neighbors, they have to stop doing so. That's not discrimination. It's just common sense.

666 posted on 11/20/2006 6:44:31 AM PST by Jim Noble (To preserve the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity)
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To: Jim Noble

I lost my sympathy for smokers thirty years ago.

A neighbor smoked and fell asleep in his downstairs living room. The house burned. He got out. His five kids and wife, all sleeping upstairs, died.

At the funeral, he was smoking and continued to smoke.

I knew then it was not just a habit, but an addiction. And probably a worse addiction than most.


669 posted on 11/20/2006 6:56:12 AM PST by cajungirl (no)
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To: Jim Noble

Riiight.


705 posted on 11/20/2006 10:28:27 AM PST by saganite (Billions and billions and billions-------and that's just the NASA budget!)
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