<< AmusedOne -- I'm out. You haven't said diddly squat, but all you can do is try to demean whatever I say by calling it BS or pathetic. You can believe whatever you want, and you can spew whatever lame aspersions you wish, but it doesn't make it so.
Me thinks your mind is too clouded by your own smoke. All I can do is pity the shallowness of your thinking. >>
Nice try, but I don't smoke.
My thinking isn't shallow. I recognize there is a problem, but I don't suffer from immediate, knee-jerk reactionism like: tobacco should be illegal. I can actually LEARN from history and see how this would cause far more problems than it would solve. Not to mention the government has no place limiting individual liberties like this.
I recognize there's a problem, but I don't try to blame everyone else for the CHOICE the smoker makes. No one twisted your friend's arms and made them smoke. And no one twisted their arms and kept them from quitting. It was THEIR CHOICE.
I recognize there's a problem, but I don't claim to have any solution other than education. People have been self destructing since the beginning of time, and it's been against one law or another for nearly that long. You aren't coming up with any new ideas that haven't failed long, long ago and many, many times over.
<< Me thinks... >>
I'd like to see that.