[Doe Eyes]

If you want to reduce smoking, require non-smoking as a prereq for receiving medicaid. Or perhaps an ad campaign. But coercive methods such as bans and taxes just won’t work.

Coddling addicts has never worked. Make it illegal and throw the junkies in jail.

[eXe]

Calling smokers “addicts” has never worked either.

Smoking wasn’t considered an “addiction” until the Surgeon General changed the definition of addiction to specifically include the smoking of tobacco.

It was considered a habit. Habitually is a quite different thing from addiction.

[ari-freedom]

well...there is smoking in most prisons.

[Eric Blair 2084]

I’ll give you a chance to please ‘splain Lucy. What are you trying to say.

[IIntense]

...throw the junkies in jail.

What junkies?

[CSM]

“There’s no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren’t enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws. Who wants a nation of law-abiding citizens? What’s there in that for anyone? But just pass the kind of laws that can neither be observed nor enforced nor objectively interpreted and you create a nation of law-breakers.”

Ayn Rand, “Atlas Shrugged”