Reply #13: Do you drink? I know a lot of people who drink

[sabrina 1]

and as someone who doesn't, am aware of the 'stink' of alcohol, not to mention the damage they are doing to themselves if they drink to excess and to their families. It never fails to amuse me when some of them become all righteous about smokers.

Let's get rid of all evil habits. Shut down bars as a start, that would certainly please many who have been victimized by that habit. At least a smoker doesn't leave a restaurant, get in a car and become a threat to others s/he encounters on the ride home.

A case can be made for banning anything. If only we could make the world perfect for our precious selves. So long as our own bad habits are left alone.

Let's make a list of all the bad habits people engage in, (driving cars that spew toxins into the air should be on that list, imho, I really don't like breathing in all those emissions from exhaust pipes) and ban all of them. Video games that make people violent, porn that degrades women, and there is all that revenue to our prison system to be had.

Making the world perfect. It's the hypocrisy of going after one thing, while ignoring so many others that gets to me. Personally I don't care one way or the other about smoking. I grew up around smokers, all of them healthy so far btw. It's the question of 'what next'. That question WAS asked when they illegalized drugs. And it was so successful :sarcasm:, well for the law and order industry anyhow. I guess we have the answer.