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Politics : Ask Michael Burke -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Broken_Clock who wrote (114040)	6/16/2008 7:05:11 PM
From: longnshort	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 132070

Just outlaw tobacco

To: Broken_Clock who wrote (114040)	6/16/2008 7:25:54 PM
From: Freedom Fighter	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 132070

BC, >So smokers should get up and leave if a patron at the next table is rude enough to sit down upwind and blow smoke across the non smokers table?< If things were done properly and it was a smoking establishment you probably shouldn't even be there. You should be across the street at the non-smoking restaurant. If it was a smoking restaurant and you chose to be there anyway, then you could politely ask the person to blow the smoke the other way, but that's about it. >Then to be consistent, if an HIV infected person knowingly has unprotected sex with a non-infected person it's just too bad?< Obviously not. In your example, the non-infected person has no choice in whether or not to engage in sex despite the HIV risk because he doesn't know. There is no sign that tells him whether his potential partner is HIV positive or negative (smoking or non smoking)