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In reply to the discussion: Just ban cigarettes already. Please. [View all]Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)Seriously. We have enough unenforceable laws. You're a 'pariah' because other people don't want to be subjected to your smoke, and because lots of other people have quit, and it's not as socially accepted and ubiquitous as (gack!) it once was.
But consenting adults should be free to make choices, even bad ones.
You don't have to tell me that it's bad for you. My dad died of lung cancer. But I'm not your nanny and the government shouldn't be, either. That said, it's reasonable both to have restrictions on where people can smoke AND to have taxes on them much as we tax things like liquor. Much as we ought to tax a product like pot, were it ever made legal.
I'm going to go out on a limb, here, and wager that you don't really want cigarettes banned, so much as you want to not be a 'pariah' for smoking them after you've paid taxes on a pack.