The government has every right to protect its citizens from harm. Cigarettes are harmful. Doesn't matter whether you agree with me or not. Scientific studies, medical records and health statistics have proven that cigarettes are deadly. I'm surprised we even got the ban considering how powerful the tobacco industry has been.
well science has proven time and again that booze is bad for you, so we should ban that shit too! for the Children!
science "proved" that electro0magnetic radiation from powerlines causes cancer (one shitty survey indicated that statistically it MIGHT be related) so we should ban electrical power!
cars kill more kids than any other object or disease, we must stop the epidemic of "car violence" by banning these "Death Machines" forever!
icecream makes kids fat, so we should lynch the good humour man!
dogs can bite children! we must eliminate these viscous attack animals before they kill even one more innocent.
in the 18th and 19th centuries CHILDREN were employed in the operation of industrial machinery! BAN INDUSTRY!
no tobacco company ever forced nobody else to smoke, people choose their own vices habits and pleasures. if you are so hot and heravy to ban smoking why the fuck dont you go picket phillip morris or throw a brick through the windows at RJR/Nabisco? just because you dont like something doesnt make that thing dirty immoral, or sinful. thats the same thing you claim all republicans do with their jeebus bullshit. funny how i always got more evangelizing about my former smoking habit from leftists than i ever got from christians about my heathenism.
militant leftist control freaks who want to dominate everyone's life (as long as THEIR shit isnt touched) can never stop making new demands. no furn no leather, no meat, no trans fats, no regular fats, no "chemicals" no genetically modified foods, no processed foods, no preserved foods, no sulphates, no sulphites, no artificial colorings, no artificial flavours, no prepackaged foods, no anything.... shit if you assholes get your way we will only eat fruit that has fallen from the plant all by itself, and farm raised algae paste smeared on crackers made from dirt and grass clippings.
if you want to be a non-smoker then dont smoke. if you find the smell of tobacco smoke so offensive, dont got to establishments that allow smoking. you can live in your yippie enclave sipping organic small batch artisinal macrobiotic wheat grass and nibbling dried peruvian llama dung, while you lament the sad state of everybody else's life to those who actually give a shit what you "think" about anything. at least sensible people wont have to hear your whining.
i dont give a fuck if you hate smoking, eat a vegan macrobiotic diet of organic non-gmo turnip greens and distilled vinegar. you can do that shit if you want, likewise if you think i shouldnt be able to drink booze, smoke if i choose to do so, drive a classic car, or eat wild condor meat from ecologically unsustainable sources thats too fucking bad.