Writers can’t afford thin skins; smoking is an individual choice, not a group sport or a political movement or an evaluation of the order of the universe.
When you tax smokers as a group, criticize them as a group and then label them all as stupid because you think that making harmful choices are creating harm to all, then you are not allowing for those individuals to be measured in turn.
During the Manhattan Project, it was noted that the majority of the scientists on board were smokers and they guzzled coffee, stayed up until weird hours of the night and partied like drunken sailors from time to time; now, that’s stupid.
You’re right. Writers can’t afford thin skins. Then we would be like smokers!
I am criticizing a form of behavior. I find it stupid. I am also criticizing the notion that this stupidity justifies taxing it.