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Originally Posted by ngdawg
We've been pariahs for years. The difference now is the feeling that everyone else has the right to tell us what pariahs we are. I find this in many areas-virtual strangers forcing their POV, their morals on others with the intent of changing that which they don't like. snip...
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yes. And before that, non-smokers were the buts of ridicule. we were un-cool, non-mainstream. All the advertising had it that we were on the social margins. All movies had the Bogarts lighting their joints. Ultra suave, ultra-Deneuve...
Even in the '70's, the fact that I didn't smoke (on the city bus! FFS) subjected me to ridicule.
Oh well, mores change, and the great wheel turns. The shoe has been put on the other foot, and it causing blisters.