I know they're bad for me and so does everyone else. If they're so bad for me then outlaw them.
I just finished reading an editorial in my local paper, The Virginian Pilot, about a proposed smoking ban in the city of Norfolk. It mentions all the typical evils associated with smoking and second hand cigarette smoke.…
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26 - Victor Plenty
To be consistent we'd have to either ban tobacco and alcohol, OR legalize the wide variety of other recreational drugs.
Whether we do either of those things, or just keep muddling along with our current inconsistencies, in public places I'm always happier where nobody is burning anything merely to make it emit choking volumes of toxic gases. (And no, I am most emphatically NOT a former user of any drug habitually ingested by burning it first.)
If somebody ever finds a way for people to take their tobacco (or other drugs) without exposing anyone else to it, I'll fully endorse your freedom to indulge anywhere you like.
27 - Dr Dreadful
Victor - exactly.
And unless you want your taxes to go through the stratosphere to pay for enforcement, I'd go for option 2.