| The Tobacco Reference Guide |
| by David Moyer, MD. |
| Chapter 42 Humor |
| globalink (artefact pour saut de ligne) |
| 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 |
| tobacco reference guideg (artefact pour saut |
| "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 |
| tobacco reference guideg (artefact pour saut |
| 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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