anti smokers

I can see the problem with it running insurance up, of course some of the insurance companies are cracking down, at my dads work place now they have eliminated smoking on the property for insurance reasons but they just go accross the street at breaks and lunch. one thing I am wondering though too is how many people out there will get cancer weather they smoke or not from all the factory and car pollution and other things in the air and how much of it is from the cancer gene. Seems like this would be to hard to really figure out though. I just don't like to see anybody's freedom of choice taken away, smokers or non smokers. I have a bad feeling that if things keep going soon all our freedoms will be done away with. I can understand peoples concern over the health issues with tobacco.

 

Here is another problem I just thought about, if they ban smoking all together then you can count on a tobacco war just like the drug war, you will be paying to put a lot more people in jail, to feed them. Added prison space. Added health insurance for those people arrested that are put in jail. One thing you could be sure of, even if they were to ban tobacco, people would start growing it illegally and sell it like marijuana. You would have a whole other mess out there on the streets added to whats already there. Not including all the jobs lost in the tobacco industry, I dont know about where you are at but jobs around here are hard to find as it is. Another thing too it would slash out a lot of tax money being paid in from people buying tobacco, that would put some strain on the economy and there are probably other problems it would cause that i havent listed too. It's a sad situation it seems no matter how you look at it.

 

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Goverments put themselves in a tight position when they seek to underwrite
the consequences of human behaviour.

In New York City there was a proposal tabled to create city employees
who would monitor sex clubs to insure the use of condoms and safe sex.

Can you imagine; a Sex Inspector !


The thought is that it would spare goverment expense in treating STD's

 

It sounds something like the anti-sex league from Orwell's nineteen eighty-four.

That has to be the first thing youv'e said on this site that I agree with. Well stated.
Beside that, anytime politicians decide that they will control the behavior of the individual, insurance is always their old stand-by argument. When all else fails, turn to insurance. Unfortunately, it seems to work.

 

I like ciggs and ciggs like me. I will not blow my smoke in your face as long as you do not blow your silly insults in mine. I myself am a big fan of cancer... I can't wait till the magic day on which I will feel its great power overtaking my body.

Honestly though... there should be more crackdown on alcohol, it endangers other's lives much more than second hand smoke.

 

You wont here any insult from me, as far as im concerned each individual can do as they please.