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Thread #126045   Message #2800522
Posted By: GUEST,Carol Denney, the author
31-Dec-09 - 09:03 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Add: Smokers Are Scum, a gentle song
Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Smokers Are Scum, a gentle song
How cool. I wish I could hear it; there's a lot of potential in the line "we've reserved a place for smokers." Thanks for the reference regarding the Ohio 1994 case. What I love about a precedent for battery is that it lays the groundwork for self-defense. My band is going to pose with squirt guns, fire extinguishers, and of course Powder Fresh Glade Air Freshener. For those interested in the reference:

"Battery:
In civil law, battery is described as an intentional and offensive touching of another without lawful justification. If a neighbor is purposefully directing secondhand smoke into your apartment, the exposure may be considered to be battery. In a 1994 Ohio case, blowing smoke in the face of another person was found to constitute battery."