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Saturday, 2 July 05 :: smoking should be banned.

yes! i finally said it. smoking should be banned. i'm spending enough time outside in public areas to know how offensive this hobby is. NOT to the person doing it, but the person who has to inhale their second hand smoke. and not only is it offensive, but more importantly it is bad for those who don't smoke.. those who have never puffed a cigarette EVER. it is BAD for my PHYSICAL health.

yeah yeah, i know, i'm a liberal.. i believe in rights for everyone.. but not if those rights infringe on others rights to breathe air not tainted with the crap in second hand smoke.

i'm off to another day in the smoke mines.

posted by brooke at July 2, 2005 09:00 AM

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i'm brooke, born in '73. i am currently a phd student in instructional technology. this is the blog where i capture all the neurotic, and the few non-neurotic, moments that seem to come with being a phd student (if you want to read less neuroses and more professionalism go to: oer's, dl's, reuse and culture: it's about a phd student researching digital resources in a multicultural world). i have been from eugene, oregon for a long time.. 8 years specifically (its my home now, but i grew up in southwestern virginia), but now i'm here in logan, utah at utah state university. after finding my roots in eugene i never could have expected that i would leave that liberal oasis and head to utah. but i did and there are days when its a blessing and days when i'm tempted to go back to oregon and beg the folks at lost valley educational center to let me move in. but i won't leave because there are days when this process is better than any kind of high i could ever imagine. what else? i collect things, i have 2 cats, 2 kayaks, 2 laptops (i'm a geek - one mac, one pc). i can be emailed at brookesblog@rivervision.com.