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To: traditionalist
If you ingest something and become a public charge, the public is stuck with the bill of keeping you alive. Hence the public has a right to prevent you from doing things that will make you a public charge.

Why are cigarettes and alcohol legal then? Should these be made illegal?

195 posted on 09/15/2002 11:09:37 AM PDT by AntiGuv
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To: AntiGuv
Why are cigarettes and alcohol legal then? Should these be made illegal?

Are you advancing a socialist 'fairness' argument for the legalization of all recreational poisons?

212 posted on 09/15/2002 11:23:06 AM PDT by Cultural Jihad
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