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If the government wants to stop paying subsidised health care to smokers, then it needs to stop taxing the hell out of tobacco. Freedom does mean the right to do stupid things, like smoke. I smoke,and it's a stupid thing, and I know it, but one out of every 5 times I light up, I actually enjoy it. So now it should be illegal? It may affect someone else adversely, so it should be illegal. That's the argument on public smoking bans, and personally, I don't have a problem with not smoking in the grocery store, or the mall. It's a non issue to not be allowed to smoke on the bus. Get out of my home. While soon, the government may indeed be paying me to pay my rent, I currently pay it.
Don't waste my tax dollars going after smokers, get the criminals off the streets. If it's environmental pollutants that are a concern, illegalize cars. There are more cars on the road in the US than there are smokers, and they are causing more environmental hazards than smokers ever will, outside.
Here's a thought for all the "let the government tell me when to pee" crowd, don't wait for the government to tell you it's illegal to own a car, take all your internal combustion vehichles to the scrap yard, and get them crushed. One step ahead of the curve then. I say every person that actively lobbies for smoking bans should be imprisoned for life if they drove a vehichle to the convention. Hypocrisy should be every bit as much a crime as smoking.
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