Subject: Re: [LPNY DISCUSS] Re: Proposal For Fall 2003 Anti-Smoking Ban Campaign Date: Sun, 3 Aug 2003 14:02:53 -0400 To: From: Bob Armstrong On Sun, 3 Aug 2003 10:20:52 EDT, WTurtleNY@aol.com wrote: >=A0In a message dated 8/3/03 4:08:54 AM Eastern Daylight Time, >=A0snellthewise@yahoo.com writes: > >=A0>=A0why should a smoker be allowed to aggress against others by >=A0>=A0polluting the air? Why not smoke smokeless cigarettes when in= public? > >=A0This is one example of why you are taken less than seriously;= you complain >=A0about people using overblown language (taxation is theft) yet= you speak of >=A0smokers "aggressing" against others. =A0Then YOU decide what= smokers should do >=A0instead. Agreed Willy . It's "Private" Bars and clubs , Andrea . Just= don't come in . >=A0>=A0I'm not sure that health insurance should cover diseases that= are caused by >=A0>=A0smoking. The State has totally screwed up the market in insurance making= it unaffordable for masses of people by requiring the bundling all= sorts of crap together . But , going to a smoker life insurance site a while ago , and= calculating the breakeven life expectancies based on their premiums , looked= like they expected no-smokers to live to about 80 and smokers to about 75= , may be a few years less , but I remember the difference was about 5 yrs . >=A0And I find it interesting that you find it interesting that we >=A0individualists, who arrived, independently, to the same= beliefs, should want to band >=A0together with like-minded people. =A0Birds of a feather. Exactly right . I was so glad when I discovered a group of= people who also could think clearly and deeply and showed that "political= science" was not a total oxymoron . >=A0>=A0I don't plan to respond to emails whose tone I don't like. I don't even bother reading the authors after a while . --=A0 =A0Bob Armstrong -- http://CoSy.com -- 212-285-1864 Liberty : http://cosy.com/Liberty.htm =A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A02003/08/03 1:34:19 PM