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Date Posted: 13:01:14 12/18/02 Wed
Author: coyotyl
Subject: also burning nasal passages, excess stomach acid ...
In reply to: BFIH 's message, "Well just going off my sister..." on 16:30:59 12/17/02 Tue

... headaches and other very disagreeable allergic symptoms do i get from breathing cigarette smoke. see, this is what our man D51 doesn't seem to get, his "what do i get" is inflicting this type of reaction upon the people around him that would be likewise affected, except that all they would have to do is merely object (i.e. choose to not want to) to breathing that smoke. him lighting up in their proximity FORCES them to breathe his cigarette by-product, forcing that 'choice' upon them. since a person has no choice but to continue breathing (whereas the smoker certainly does have the choice to light up and does not need to in order to continue living), the non-smoker's rights of course takes a higher precedence over those of a smoker lighting up and FORCING all who share that airspace to inhale 'his' exercising of his choice. so this argument of his about "what does he get" totally guts his own case when applied back to that basic right of the non-smoker to breathe the smoke-free air, "as is". it's simply a matter of respecting the same rights of others not to breathe that smoke in the air (no matter the reason) vs his right to fill that same air with it (which is, after all, his choice, whereas their breathing is not a choice, but a neccessity.

and again, i am in no way trying to limit his ability to smoke a cigarette, just so long as he does not likewise limit my ability to breathe smoke-free air in a shared space.

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