I hate cigarettes, hate cigarette smoke, and wish no one smoked them...

[JDPriestly]

65. And then the same corporations that make people addicts

getting them to spend money on cigarettes rather than on good food for their children -- donate huge amounts of money to the political campaigns of their right-wing supporters.

When you buy a package of cigarettes or a carton of beer, you are supporting right-wing causes. If you want to do that, be my guest. But I don't, and I don't.

The personal morality angle is interesting.

But the fact is that when you enjoy your personal freedom to smoke or drink beer, you empower the corporation that manufactures those products to back right-wing politicians who want to deprive you of far more important rights -- like the right to belong to a union, the right to know the truth about the products you are sold, the right to privacy about all the other things you want the right to do and that is just the beginning of the list of right-wing causes the tobacco and beer and hard liquor corporations support.

Think before you smoke. Think before you buy not just cigarettes and whiskey, but also your clothes and other consumer products. What are you getting for your money? A bunch of right-wing politicians breathing down your neck?