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To: TChris
Does a smoker deprive his non-smoking wife and children of their rights to some degree? I think he possibly does.

And so, since you "think" he possibly does, would it be fair to assume that you're leaning toward accelerating the anti-smoking Taliban's next step in the Great March Forward? Smoking as child abuse: the new best friend of neurotic control freaks and junk-science grant addicts everywhere.

161 posted on 07/24/2007 11:48:39 AM PDT by Madame Dufarge
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To: Madame Dufarge
...the anti-smoking Taliban...

This sort of inflammatory hyperbole certainly doesn't help your position.

Smoking as child abuse: the new best friend of neurotic control freaks and junk-science grant addicts everywhere.

Breathe, Madame, just breathe. Remember your blood pressure.

If you read the rest of my posts, you'd see that I haven't made up my mind yet. I believe there is something to be concerned about, and I believe the principles of the Constitution clearly allow for regulating the behavior of others when it affects someone else. Not every issue demands government response, but I believe this one might.

That said, I don't think the feds should be involved AT ALL.

162 posted on 07/24/2007 11:54:33 AM PDT by TChris (The Republican Party is merely the Democrat Party's "away" jersey - Vox Day)
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