The author June Thunderstorm also speaks about how people feel disgusted when their around a smoker nowadays. They act as if smoking in front of child is an inhumane act and your should be reprimanded for it. However, she believes that smoking in front of a child is nothing compared to the other antics the government is up to. She states, "Instead, they blame the poor for contaminating the world, while funding paramilitary offensives in defense of filthy transnational mining projects and neocolonial oil-and-resource wars...". While that may be true I believe its unethical to smoke in front of a child and I'm not a fan of her aggressive tone in this essay. She has a right to her opinion on the matter but I just don't like the way she goes about expressing her opinion.
Welcome to the blog for Prof. John Talbird's English 101 class. The purpose of this site is two-fold: 1) to continue the conversations we start in class (or to start conversations before we get to class) and 2) to practice our writing, reading, and thinking on a weekly basis in an informal setting.
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Tuesday, October 16, 2018
Revenge of the Mouthbreathers
June Thunderstorm the author of, "Revenge of the Mouthbreathers: A Smokers Manifesto" argues that anti-smoking legislation is simply passed as a form of social control. Workers work shitty jobs with shitty hours and they're just looking for something to alleviate the stress. Personally, I never smoked a cigarette in my life but I don't look differently upon anyone who has. They have their own life and they get to make their own decisions. The warnings are on the boxes so people know exactly what they're getting into when they smoke a cigarette.
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