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To: Jacques Chitte who wrote (22398)	5/28/1998 6:07:00 PM
From: Grainne	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 108807

Sorry, Alex, I always lose my sense of irony when I am ill. Hey, I have an idea--make it MANDATORY for smokers to work for an hour a week in bars. That way the entire population of nicotine fiends would be served without endangering the health of nonsmokers, and they might die out sooner because of their increased exposure to second hand smoke. Two for one or something!!!

To: Jacques Chitte who wrote (22398)	5/28/1998 7:00:00 PM
From: Lady Lurksalot	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

Alex, A recurring theme on this thread that disturbs me greatly is that somehow great deference and preference should be given to pregnant women and children--no matter its cost. The flip side of this pattern of "thought" is that nonpregnant adults, particularly those who do not have young children and thus serve no useful purpose, are deemed unworthy specimens of humanity and expendable. When California voters passed the cigarette tax of 1988, they were told that this money was to be used for smoking cessation programs and to fund treatment of smoking-related illnesses (which now seem to include everything from warts to mononucleosis to broken bones). However, those tax dollars have been used for everything but their stated purpose, save some insipid anti-smoking ads on TV. Irony or not, it seems to be the mission statement of the anti-smoking militia that once we have wiped the earth free of the smokers and the people exposed to second-hand smoke, we will end death and disease once and for all. Holly