Reply #165: None of the above.

[Jed Dilligan]

I think that various interest groups are trying to brew up a War on Tobacco that will be just as ineffective yet damaging to democracy as the War on Drugs.

I think the government should intervene in people's health in positive rather than negative ways. It should be promoting health instead of trying to prohibit unhealthy behaviors.

The demonization of smokers on DU just shows that, sadly, the Democrats are not going to break pattern--we have always been suckered into every "War On" that the right invents.