ROANOKE TIMES 

                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: MONDAY, March 19, 1990                   TAG: 9003222331
SECTION: EDITORIAL                    PAGE: A6   EDITION: METRO 
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DISLIKE MY SMOKING? THEN YOU CAN LEAVE

IT MAKES me sick that the government, in particular the clown called the surgeon general, has any right to tell me that when I want to relax and enjoy a cigarette, I'm killing people.

I've got news for you: I walk a lot, and I don't like all the exhaust fumes from your cars and trucks. How can this be a free and competitive country if private companies can't compete for a dollar?

The government has gone far enough to tell people how to live or make a living. If I'm working and put a cigarette in my mouth, and you come by and don't like it, then by damn, you can sure leave. There isn't anybody holding a gun to your head or twisting your arm.

You don't live for me; you don't pay my bills. So you don't like how I enjoy myself or relax? That's tough. Don't bother me, just stay away. I don't need crybabies.\ JOSEPH DeWILDE\ WYTHEVILLE 


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