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I'm sure a lot of these militant anti-smokers are a bit overweight. They wouldn't like to be singled out and called "worthless, fat pigs" who are using "more than their share" of resources because they carried a few extra pounds.
Nicotine is an addictive substance. People will quit, or go to an alternative delivery system (patch, pill or that new electric cigarette thing) if they can't quit, when the price gets high enough or it gets too inconvenient to smoke. But they'll do it when they've made up their own mind and fixed it in their own heads that it is a good idea for them to stop, not when people call them names or suggest that they are neanderthals who should be shunned.
American Indians used tobacco for centuries. They didn't smoke their peace pipes while they were out hunting or on the march, they saved it for special occasions. There are some people who can pick it up and put it down on a whim, like those who smoke the odd cigar once or twice a month.
It's a plant. I really don't think it's as evil as some people insist it is, but it's like anything else--too much ain't good for you. The tobacco industry went out of their way to encourage people to have too much, and to make it easy for them to have too much, too--like, say, twenty "doses" a day.
I'm betting some of these anti-smokers, if you went to take away their pot, or their beer, would have something to say about that....Oh, that's DIFFERENT! But it's not really different. Everyone's got a little monkey on their back--it's just that the monkeys of the OTHERS are always more annoying than one's own!
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