On Mon, 9 Jun 2008 13:56:48 -0400, "cybercat" >
wrote:

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>"blake murphy" > wrote in message
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>> On Sun, 8 Jun 2008 15:26:06 -0400, "cybercat" >
>> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>"sf" <.> wrote in message
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>>>> On Sun, 8 Jun 2008 13:26:49 -0400, "Edwin Pawlowski" >
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>"sf" <.> wrote in message
>>>>>> How about that SUV driver with a cigarette in one hand, a cell in the
>>>>>> other and a bunch of kids in the back?
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>I keep hearing various states want to pass laws that you cannot smoke in
>>>>>a
>>>>>car with kids. Much as I dislike smoking, I'm against such a law. My
>>>>>car
>>>>>is
>>>>>sort of an extension of my home and aside from improper driving or
>>>>>endangering, I should be free to do what I like.
>>>>>
>>>> IMO, it's dangerous in the respect that it takes one hand off the
>>>> wheel - just like cell phones. Unlike cell phones, you're distracted
>>>> by talking to a disembodied person.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>I live in a tobacco state, smoked from age 15 to 40, and STILL know that
>>>people who try to defend smoking are out of their ****ing minds.
>>>
>>>Screw the health concerns, the expense, the contact smoke.
>>>
>>>YOU ASSHOLES STINK!
>>>
>>>You smell bad, your houses and cars smell bad, and anyone visiting you
>>>winds
>>>up smelling bad.
>>>
>>
>> i don't defend smoking so much as twit non-smoking zealots.
>
>I always have too. But of the two, SMOKING zealots are invariably
>the more stupid. Stupid people get on my nerves, especially when they
>are loud and persistant like Michael. And Greg. And ... well, hell, I
>guess I am just ill tempered.
>
>
>> life is
>> nasty, brutish and short with of without second-hand cigarette smoke.
>
>Only if you're doing it right.
>
>> man up.
>>
>
>Is it too much to ask to expect less people to act like imbeciles?
>
>Never mind.
>
>By now I know it is.
>
>Meanwhile, I do miss my cigs, and I always will. Talk about reliable
>fwends. Stinky, but ever present.
>

ah, a reformed smoker. say no more.

you have both my sympathy and grudging admiration.

your pal,
blake