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   Brian M. Scott to jclarke.usenet@cox.net   
   Re: What (not) to write...   
   12 Oct 08 21:40:56   
   
   From: b.scott@csuohio.edu   
      
   On Sun, 12 Oct 2008 20:14:47 -0400, "J. Clarke"   
    wrote in   
    in rec.arts.sf.misc:   
      
   [...]   
      
   > Personally I don't smoke, but I think that the way the US   
   > handles  smoking is just another example of Puritanism   
   > running amok.   
      
   Prohibition was arguably Puritanism running amok; this is a   
   different motivation altogether.   
      
   Brian   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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