Thread: Smoking Ban
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Old 05-12-2003, 12:37 PM   #175
Timber Loftis
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I doubt it'll make it much further, Willow, but if it crosses the 10 page threshold I will do the socially responsible thing and start a new one.

Animal, IIRC, all tobacco smoke contains carcinogens, including additive free (e.g. Winston) and organic tobacco second-hand smoke. Maybe just not as many as the chemical laden ones (Marlboro comes to mind). Besides, we are again entertaning legislation: either make people smoke only organic non-additive tobacco, or make tobacco producers only produce that kind. Either way, it's legislating the solution.

I am perfectly willing to accept the fact that cigarettes are cancer sticks and will kill me as certainly as sucking on my car's exhaust pipe. And, I accept cigarette smoke smells bad and fouls clothes. In short, I accept that many people reasonably do not like it and are made sick by it. All that said, I think there are still easily-workable solutions that do no require legislation.
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