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Cachan decries the invasion of his right to smoke for the good of an "abstract society." That society is not abstract at all. I and many like me are the tangible, identifiable people who suffer asthma and red eyes every time Cachan decides to exercise his God-given right to light up. This doesn't even include the many more tolerant non-smokers who will die later because of Cachan's and his fellow smokers' allegedly innocent puffs. Faced with a decidedly unabstract society that suffers because of his actions, I trust that Cachan will not assert that I must...
...United States, although it is under many conditions permissible. Though he did not intend it, Cachan's "right" to smoke does reside in this same legislative middle ground to which abortion currently belongs. And because smoking is not a right, its exercise ought to be subject to protect our "abstract society" from suffering the side-effects of Cachan's choice of what to put in his lungs...
Through Dec. "Shades of Significance: Tonal Values in abstract Art." From its origins in Cubism, through its dominance of the post-war American art scene, to its current co-Existence with other approaches to imagemaking...
...freedom to smoke is as important to me as a woman's right to choose might be to her. And claims about the imposition of my cigarette smoke on an abstract "society" are as wrong-headed as ideas that a woman's decision to do what she wants with her body will destroy the future of "society." In an effort to protect the community from the minority, we are trampling on what makes our community worth living...
...those of you, like me, who have a hard time dealing with abstract things like numbers, let me translate; $10 is what you'll pay for a pitcher of Foster's (including tip) at the Crimson Sports Grille. It's also what you'll pay Pizza Ring some evening when you and your suite-mates decide you can't live without the Super Price Blaster Special, or what you'll shell out for a ticket to a movie at Loews and a large bucket of buttered popcorn...