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Originally Posted by aico
Here's what I don't get about smoking and smokers. It's been pretty much established that smoking is probably one of the worst things you can do to yourself and those around you. So, is having that smoke really more important to you than your own health and the health of your friends and family? If so, that is truly the saddest thing I have ever heard. It's almost borderline psychotic, close to thoughts of suicide, to knowingly harm yourself and others. I just don't get it.  |
As far as the health arguement goes, they could say the same things about booze, fast food, sugar, caffeine, diet pills, etc. The problem with legislating against these behaviours is that it tends to push societry towards the direction that the super-conservative bible thumpers would like us to go.
According to the bible-thumper set: sex outside of marriage is bad for you, so is safer sex with multiple partners (even if your husband/wife is part of it), so is masturbating, and so on and so on. Do we really want to live in a world that is, while smoke-free, a highly pleasure-based-behaviour regulated place? If so, then throw democracy right out the window and bring us in some extremist Muslims to show us all the way!