[elkfersupper]

I can understand developing a hatred which could build into irrationality over the tax code, or money-grubbing politicians, or red light cameras, or Islamic fundamentalist terrorists, or deadbeat citizens, or illegal immigration, or even fluoride in the water.

But smokers and tobacco?

I just don't get it. It is pure hysteria.

[Quix]

How many of us PhD's in clinical psychology are there on here with qualifications to assess hysteria?

I don't hate smokers.

I hate their denial, selfishness, irrationality about such studies; their HEAVY HANDED CONTROL over the defenseless lives of the unborn and other children to those individuals' compromised lungs and general health . . . I hate their hypocrisy.

Lives of the innocent have always been worth my concern as well as my emotions and my speaking out.

Woe to the day when America has too few willing to speak out for the defenseless.