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To: Franklin M. Humphreys who wrote (9598)	2/8/1998 11:41:00 PM
From: sea_biscuit	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 25814

** OFF TOPIC ** Dipy; you wrote: >>>MO passionately believes in guarding the individual's right to smoke.<<< I ask you "Who is guarding the non-smoking individual's right NOT to be burdened with the expense of the smoker's folly?" "Who is passionately guarding the individual's right to litigate against Tobacco and the Federal Government for the myriad of losses to their health and property occasioned by this insidious partnership between them?" I will be the first to admit that any resolution of this knotty issue will have to be accompanied by compromises on both sides. To some extent at least, smoking was (and is) a conscious choice made by the smokers (something that the anti-smoking groups in Japan have discovered to their intense chagrin -- they are unable to mobilize the smokers against the tobacco companies because... (SURPRISE! SURPRISE!!) the smokers hold themselves responsible for their actions!). The proposed settlement is as much an effort to compensate for whatever wrongs the companies did, as it is to ensure that non-smokers are not burdened with the costs of treating the smokers. Any attempts to squeeze even more dough out of the companies just in order to "teach them a lesson" might turn out to be the biggest mistake since the time when a man killed a goose that was laying a golden egg everyday. But that is exactly what the rabid anti-smoking forces are doing. This has resulted in the peculiar situation where the biggest enemy of the non-smoker today is no longer the tobacco company but the aforementioned insane brigade! One should do well not to fall into their trap. >>>....MO passionately believes in guarding the individual's right to smoke.<<<<ed.> This phrase reminds me of a passage in H. Miller's "Tropic of Cancer" "... a man can learn to love horse-shit if his lively-hood depends upon it; take, for instance, the lowly street-cleaner." <ed.> Well, Mr. Miller obviously didn't realize how lucky he was that somebody loved horse-shit. Otherwise, he would have been compelled to fall in love with it! :-) :-) Dipy.