Email from a normblog reader:
Having to represent my union at a meeting with management on a new 'Smoking at Work' policy, I took along the normblog pieces on the subject [see here and follow the links back]. So successful were the arguments raised that, in a moment of inattention on my part, I got seconded to draft the new policy myself. I am considering outsourcing this task to a certain professor emeritus.Oh, great! So I'll get the blame for wrecking people's health. And that will demoralize me. I'll go into a decline. I'll start smoking again myself. And drinking and gambling and hanging out in evil places with bad people. It'll end in the gutter. All because I think smokers are people too.