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Originally posted by Jennifer_4

Ted, big difference between moral issues and health issues… if smoking is so bad, then why don’t they just outlaw it? Hamburgers are supposedly really bad too… do you want the government telling you that you can’t eat them anymore? It’s called personal responsibility…so what you’re saying is that if people won’t take care of themselves as the government sees fit, the government should force them to take care of themselves? I don’t think so.

I think you’re missing the key point, that people’s right to smoke ends where the next persons rights begin. The act of smoking directly affects and harms other people. The act of eating a hamburger does not.