Smoking at housie
Sir, — May I through your column hopefully ask those of your readers who play housie to refrain from smoking for at least the first half of the evening, to give non-smokers a chance to breathe clean air. Smokers are apparently unaware that their second-hand smoke pollutes our eyes, lungs and clothes, and added to that, they selfishly demand that ventilation fans be turned off while the numbers are called. I once asked a lady (?) if she would mind lifting a cigarette from a tin ashtray, where it was burning in a pile of matches and causing a filthy stench. Her reply? "If you object to smoke you've no b . , . right
to be at housie.” I consider I have the right and that I and other non-smokers have the right to clean air. — Yours, etc.,
BLUE FOG. November 19, 1975.
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Press, Volume CXV, Issue 34009, 25 November 1975, Page 18
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