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Why not fight like hell to drop the public smoking ban on cigarettes. I honestly believe that alot of people who want to legalize marijuana are the same people who wanted to ban cigarette smoking in public, or suffer from lung cancer caused by cigarette smoking. Meanwhile, the lung cancer victims sue the tobacco companies and everyone ends up footing the bill.

I honestly believe that alot of people who want to legalize marijuana are the same people who wanted to ban cigarette smoking in public

Could be. I honestly believe they're doing it to stir you up so you'll agree to let them ban cigarettes (and anything else they want) if it means you get to keep the ban on pot.

"Why not fight like hell to drop the public smoking ban on cigarettes."

Because there is no public ban on smoking where I live. Hell, I'm sitting in my office in the courthouse as I type this smoking a cigarette.

"Meanwhile, the lung cancer victims sue the tobacco companies and everyone ends up footing the bill."

I'm still paying less than $3.00 a pack for Marlboros and my guess is that most of the price increase I've seen over the years has come from taxes. The tobacco companies are still making a profit despite the judgment payouts and those that don't smoke aren't feeling any effects from the tobacco lawsuits. If the tobacco companies didn't want to get sued they shouldn't have lied to people for so long and tried to con everyone into believing their products weren't addictive and harmful to health even though they knew good and well smoking is both addictive and extremely unhealthy. I can't feel all that sorry for tobacco companies.