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The Tobacco Reference Guide |
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| | Dr. Simon Chapman comments on the concept of "smokers' rights": ...a generally |
| | unspecified allusion to an inalienable assumption of rights said to apply to smokers. |
| | These alleged rights bear some reflection against the history of arguably comparable |
| | "rights" that have long since eroded. In Elizabethan England, the free exercise of |
| | flatulence even among company was considered normal and not proscribed by |
| | considerations of politeness or offensiveness. Similarly, public expectoration was |
| | commonplace across all social classes in Victorian and Edwardian England, and the |
| | practice remains widespread in many countries today without drawing any social or |
| | legal approbation. There are some pertinent similarities between flatulence, spitting, |
| | and smoking. Each behavior is essentially personal but being not involuntary, is each |
| | capable of being exercised in both private and in public settings. In view of these |
| | parallels, it is salutary to speculate on the likely reception that would be given to |
| | earnest talk about "farters' rights" or "spitters' rights." Clearly, such terms would be |
| | greeted with derision, while "smokers' rights" continues to maintain some currency as |
| | a serious concept. |
| | International Journal of Health Services, 20:425, 1990 |
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| | "Philip Morris has announced that because of corporate downsizing, it plans to lay off |
| | two U.S. Senators." |
| | As told by Ronn Owens on his KGO radio talk show, San Francisco, March 24, |
| | 1997 |
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| | Anti-tobacco advocate Greg Connolly was served by the tobacco industry with a |
| | discovery motion asking for hundreds of documents, including records of his |
| | discussions with a Reverend George Trask. As it turned out, Trask was an abolitionist |
| | who also led a campaign against tobacco, and who died in 1875. |
| | Tobacco Control, Winter 1997, p. 355 |
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