From: TURTLE              
To: DRAGONFLY           
Subject: breaking habits
Date & Time: 05/21/91 01:19:33
Message Number 16957

>Any ideas on how we can keep smoker's freedoms...
 
What, pray tell, does the phrase "smoker's freedoms" mean? Surely
you aren't suggesting that people have the /right/ to smoke...or
even the /right/ to smoke tobacco products only. I don't recall that
being anywhere in the jurisdiction of any of the rights guaranteed
in the Constitution or anywhere else, and it's a certainty that people
don't have the /right/ to smoke non-tobacco substances. The fact that
society condones it does not mean it's a "right." I don't have the
"right" to dump poison into the air through a smaokestack; do you
suggest I have the right to dump poison into the air through a rolled-
up paper tube? If any "freedoms" are at stake here, they're freedoms
connected with the right to privacy, which doesn't extend to public
places (and that argument can easily be applied to a host of drugs
besides tobacco, too...)!