| Show LETTER TO THE EDITOR v J V i Ii I ITo To the persons who do not like smokers i To the two persons who do not like smokers To the GET major I think you need to get your facts straight We are not talking about the whole USA we are talking about There are more smokers at this college than non- non smokers We smokers have had to give up the fine entertainment and luxuries that this college freely gives to non I cannot go to the game room and smoke and shoot pool when I am uptight because of my studies and if I go into the copper room to see an activity I dont don't smoke Also most of the evening entertainment is held in a smoking non non ng area Approximately Approximate Approximate- ly 90 of the college is smoke If our 10 is causing you that much of a problem then re-evaluate re yourself or go to BYU An alternative is to stay out of the smoking areas as we stay out of the smoking non-smoking areas To the English department individual individual individual in in- The man dying of cancer because because because be be- cause of one individual smoking is pure BS BSH I have known people who have died of lung cancer but it was not related to smoking Not all lung cancer is related to smoking My ly dating back to my great grandmother she smoked a corn com cob pipe and died at the age of of natural causes not cancer have cancer have smoked for many many years Not one of my family died because of smoking or and/or cancer My grandmother died at the age of 83 because of cancer of the colon and hardening of the arteries after living some 20 years with a quarter of a lung to breathe with as one lung plus three fourths of the other one was collapsed because she had tuberculosis and sugar diabetes She was around all of us who smoked she did not smoke and there was no connection between her death and smoking As to the rapist there is no comparison or reason to state such sucha a fact unless you believe that all rapists smoke Well Ted Bundy did not smoke and he raped and killed many women To the both of you I am appalled i to think that a college student and a person working in the English department department department depart depart- ment can have such closed minds Both of you need to take a lesson In Inthe Inthe inthe the environment There are more pollutants pollutants pollutants pol pol- in the air outside that you breathe than what is in the cafeteria Maybe we should progress backwards backwards backwards back back- wards in our society We should eliminate our factories and modes of transportation We should stop chemical chemical chemical chemi chemi- cal labs from their research on new cures for the general public We should not allow ourselves to breathe the pollutants pollutants pollutants pol pol- pol- pol caused by the aforementioned Or we can follow one of the foreign countries and start wearing white masks filter the air that fE f so as to we E I breathe One foreign country has a I 4 Ilaw law restricting you from being in a a. I public place if you have a common I cold and do not wear a mask to l protect the general public from rom your I germs I Something else to consider is the j 1 billions of dollars that smokers smokers' are Ii taxed each year Are you willing to let your taxes increase to cover what the I smokers tax covers t tI I am not an over-emotional over person person person per per- t son but I do believe in being fair If you dont don't come to where we are smokIng smoking smoking ing we wont won't smoke around you But by the same token provide us with f some of the nice you are entitled entitled entitled en en- titled to here at college dining game room TV room and last but not least least o of allBE FAIR i Signed Ben Watson and 23 other smokers I t I i o i. i I I I 4 |
