He told the court: We have been trying at the bar to imagine whether we can think of any other group of legal or natural persons, terrorist suspects, arms dealers, Jews, in respect of whose evidence one might even begin to think that one could tenably say, Well, of course, in looking at this evidence I have been very careful because I know from the past that these people are a bit devious and a bit unworthy, and the only thing theyre really interested in is subverting public health. Yet last weeks judgment, running to 1,000 paragraphs, confirmed in excoriating detail just how determined big tobacco has been down the decades to achieve precisely this goal
Second, the dimensions of unexpectedness (phantom smells occurring in a non-predictable manner) and incongruency (phantom smells unrelated with the actual physical environment) may contribute significantly to the unpleasantness of this experience since they are significant determinants of the responses to smells [41]
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Generally, smokers are not considered a protected class under California employment law
