NOISE: Rand and smoking Re: Flaws of Thinkers (Jefferson, Rand, Nietzsche, Voltaire, etc.)

17 Dec 2003

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 Someone like Tim wrote something like:
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I think
some of her essays in her Objectivist Newsletter had explained why smoking
was essentially de rigeur.
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Rothbard
wrote an article for "Liberty," circa 1986-8, which is where I read the
details. Also, I believe Barbara Branden's biography of Rand dealth with
this, but I haven't read it in many a year.
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And there is this comment, from an admittedly off-beat source
(http://www.zonpower.com/zonpower/book/chapters/chapter29.html):
Uh.. yabbut we were talking about insisting that her followers 
smoke, which is different from saying that smoking is cool.  
Well, for most people it is different.

So like...  back to your regularly scheduled programming or
something...

Bryce

P.S.  I wonder how often the regularly scheduled programming of
citizen units _is_ exactly?

NOISE: Rand and smoking Re: Flaws of Thinkers (Jefferson, Rand, Nietzsche, Voltaire, etc.)

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