[ThinkDifferent]

But the fact is that I pay for the health care for people who have willingly made themselves sick through self-destructive habits, when I can barely afford health care for myself. So, that being the case, I'm all in favor of govt doing whatever it needs to wean addicts from nicotene.

Actually several studies have shown that the taxes smokers pay and their tendency to die earlier more than compensates for their medical care. Perhaps this is why it remains legal, unlike other far less hazardous drugs.

[hoosierskypilot]

several studies

Really? Which "studies?"

this is why it remains legal

I would suggest that the tobacco lobbyists and the billions of $$ the tobacco industry spends in politics might be more accurate.