On Friday, June 4, 2004, at 09:37 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
No. There is a question. Fact is, unless someone pokes you with the cigarette, you are hardly injured and certainly not dead as a result of smoking.
I've already told you how I was exposed to prodigious quantities of this secondhand smoke on several occasions with no ill effects to be found. Normally toxins make people sick or die. It is only by abusing the definition of toxic that we can arrive at the conclusion that secondhand smoke is "toxic".
The science on the effects of tobacco is sound and has been replicated in laboratory studies as well as being demonstrated in statistical research. But that would make no difference in situations like this where people, such as this writer, claims no ill effect from smoke exposure. Citing more studies does not bring more clarity or understanding. I call this "listening to tobacco." The science on the one hand always has a weaker voice when the other hand is holding a cigarette. I think the best we can hope for is cognitive recognition at some point.
You have no right to tell consenting adults what they may do behind closed doors when you're not around, as far as I'm concerned.
Here however, we should all agree that consenting adults will be able to smoke to their hearts content behind closed doors. Tobacco is legal. Anyone over 18 can buy it.
But what some smokers want is something in addition. They want others to involuntarily smoke with them. My question is, why do you want to do that? What is it about smoking that you have to have others inhale when they are in proximity to your activity?
Got an answer for this?
Best wishes,
Laura Southeast
Laura Waterman Wittstock MIGIZI Communications, Inc. 3123 East Lake Street Minneapolis, MN 55406 612.721.6631 ext 219 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.migizi.org http://laurawatermanwittstock.blogspot.com/
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