| The message of the Anti-Smoking Lobby is clear: If we cannot persuade you to stop, we will make you stop. At all costs. Perhaps it would be instructive to look at it from their perspective. What is the first step that needs to be taken? After all, they way they see it, cigarette are objectively bad. They cause lung cancer. Of course, the over-consumption of anything can lead to health problems, but unlike sodium, caffeine, carbonated beverages, sugar, saturated fat, artficial sweeteners and cholesterol, the Anti-Smoking Lobby does not have a personal stake in the freedom to consume nicotine, so it becomes evil. Those who "enjoy" it are clearly delusional victims of a massive Philip-Morris marketing campaign. Smoking is just plain wrong, and since most people do not like cigarettes, our democratic government can officially *make* them wrong. |