[FRIAM] Getting You Libertarians' Goats

[Barry MacKichan]

When we lived near Seattle, my wife worked for a while at HP, where she 
heard this story. Some visitors from Germany were visiting HP, and when 
one of them saw the clusters of smokers outside, who were mostly women, 
he said to his HP host, “Wow! Does HP really provide hookers for their 
workers?”

Just an opposing data point for your comment “very few professional 
smoke.” You neglected the oldest profession.

—Barry

On 13 Sep 2020, at 22:21, Frank Wimberly wrote:

> My 56 year-old daughter smokes cigarettes.  She is the head Latin 
> teacher at an elite boarding school in upstate New York.  I ask her 
> why she smokes and I point out that most Latin teachers don't.  It 
> may be classist but it seems to me that very few professionals 
> smoke.  She says, "Believe me, I know".  Since most places make you 
> go outside to smoke she meets all the smokers.  So, this unhealthy 
> activity leads to mixing.  Unless she's the only teacher who smokes, 
> which is possible.
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