It has always amazed me that when government targeted smokers, "conservatives" fell into lock-step. What would they say if government did the same to alcohol?
Isn't it where discussion goes to die, or else to go on and on zombie like without finally giving up the ghost?
Long ago Plato suggested that we consider it as divided into three parts—the appetitive, spirited, and rational—that correspond to the three basic kinds of human desires: the desire to satisfy physical appetites, the desire for recognition, and the desire for truth. Once this tripartite division is recalled, tobacco’s relation to the soul becomes clear: the three prevalent types of smoking tobacco—cigarettes, cigars, and pipes—correspond to the three parts of the soul.
Straussian humor, I guess, and a little behind the times. Cigars -- and especially pipes -- burned out even before cigarettes did, and came to have more to do with pretentiousness than with the higher parts of the soul.
smoke if you want to, don’t if you don’t want to...
seems like the world would be a much better place if everyone minded their own damn business... especially busy body do-gooder yankees!