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To: greenspirit who wrote (5707)	1/5/1998 1:16:00 AM
From: epicure	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 71178

Again you make a poor analogy. The smell of fish has not been proved, over and over again, to be unhealthful. Perfect air is not the question, putting a known carcinogen in the air is. One is not really free to do what one wishes with known carcinogens. They are regulated in all manner of ways. Perhaps you would like to go back to a time when food additives were unregulated and all sorts of noxious foods found there way into the grocery stores. Or a time when tainted meat was much more common than it is today. Perhaps you do not like the regulation of pesticides and would prefer our return to a simpler time when bird populations plunged dramatically because thier eggshells were so frail, their offspring could not mature. All regulation is not anethma Michael. One must, however, be capable of drawing logical distinctions. The more I draw my argument, the prouder I am of it. Let those who wish to make the rest of us smoke put their initiative on the ballot. My right to breath is stronger than their right to smoke by any natural or legal claim. You know the same arguments you advance for smoking, were used to try to prop up the rights of property owners to ban blacks from restaurants and bars. As far as I know, it is still legal not to allow black folks into your house if you are so inclined. So the hysterical argument, that the restuarant and bar, lead to a home invasion is just that, alarmist and hysterical.