You claim you don't push the idea and then proceed to devote a couple of paragraphs to exactly that. You don't want more government control, nooooo. You'll just help instigate it and then deny any resposibility for the consequences.
I wasn't aware that wholesale brazen distortion of fact was such a habit of some smokers.
I have been repeatedly accused hereon of advocating governmental intervention to stop smoking around children.
I have never once posted such on this thread. Actually, I've said It's not a priority for me to go down that path at all.
Evidently DENIAL reigns supreme even about what I have posted or not on this thread. Interesting.
I think governmental efforts to force morality are problematic. I welcome them at stop lights. But I'm troubled by them in a lot of other areas.
I much prefer consciousness raising and through provoking presentations, dialogues where possible--virtually never on these threads it seems--and public displays of evidence etc.
But, hey, I recognize that on these threads, I'll be falsely accused and my statements twisted worse than a pretzel. Par for the course.
Of course, all done in the greatest of charity and thoughtfulness for others by those who so glibly with great TYRANNICAL CONTROL WORSE THAN ANY GOVERNMENTAL LAWS AND ENFORCEMENT--FORCE THE UNBORN AND CHILDREN TO SUFFER THEIR SMOKE TO THE CHILDREN'S LUNG AND HEALTH DEGREDATION. But, I know, one mustn't let the facts hinder one's selfish and arrogant, self-destructive pleasures.
/sar