Suggests that America in the 1990s is increasingly the home of dedicated neo-Puritans, humorlessly imposing on others arbitrary standards of behavior, health and thought, and who seem to have lost sight of a bedrock American virtue: tolerance. Key battleground in the tolerance war is life-style: smoking, drinking and noshing could not only be hazardous to your health, but to your job. Legislation barring employers from discrimination. INSET: Trivial pursuit..