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Pastimes : Don't Ask Rambi
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To: greenspirit who wrote (5705)1/5/1998 4:48:00 PM
From: Janice Shell  Read Replies (1) of 71178
 
Mark my words the next assault against our freedoms (without a vote) will be our homes, and smoking will be involved.

It's already happened. People have been hired on the understanding that they don't smoke (BIIIGGG savings for the employer on his health insurance bills) and in fact don't smoke. In the office. And have then been forced to submit to urine tests, which caught them out. Another case: a person was refused a job because he/she (don't remember the details; happened in Florida a couple of years ago) smoked at home. These people have filed suit, and so far they've won. But I ask myself: for how much longer?

Not too much longer till we get the Potato Chip Police, the Steak Stormtroopers. Waht, exactly, SHOULD be done about really FAT people? They've had some success of late championing themselves as a victimized minority. Maybe we smokers should try the same.
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