[ClearCase_guy]

A lot of people look around today and say: "The government controls every aspect of our lives! How did we get here?"

Making cigarettes basically illegal was an important step.

We were a better country when most people smoked. That's not a comment about tobacco. That's a comment about freedom.

[NorthMountain]

"The government controls every aspect of our lives! How did we get here?"

People who do not police themselves will BE policed. People who exercise no self control will BE controlled. And they won't like it.

Collectively, smokers were boors; aggressively offensive to any and all, caring about only themselves. Comments like #3 and are typical ... Now we have the anti-smoking nazis, the ant-fat nazis, the anti-alcohol nazis, and a whole hairy horde of others. We have them, at least in part, because a couple of generations of cigarette smokers treated the world like their own personal ash-tray.

Sad, but thoroughly predictable.

[Drango]

We were a better country when most people smoked. That's not a comment about tobacco. That's a comment about freedom.

There is no freedom in addiction.

[Rides_A_Red_Horse]

We were a better country when most people smoked. That’s not a comment about tobacco. That’s a comment about freedom.

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