Smokers Beware
why not lift other bans, like cannabis and other illegal drugs/ narcotics and let people moderate themselves? How far do we go in either direction?
Uh.. Um.... Isn't it legal to smoke cannibis in your state now for recreation?
People are going to do what they want no matter if it is good or bad for them and even if told not to. We all know how "Prohibition" turned out....
Pretty soon they will give us an instructions sheet when we are born saying this is how you have to live your life.....
My grandfather died from Emphysema at 6AM on Christmas day when I was 7 years old. That ruined our Christmas.
I was so happy to hear that R. J. Reynolds Jr. died from emphysema also. After seeing what it did to my grandfather, he deserved the same suffering.
But we've pushed the smokers around quite a bit. They can't smoke on planes, or anywhere in public anymore. They have to stand out in the cold outside in a "time out". The inconvenience to the non smoker is gone now. Why do we have to push the smokers around any more? They are going to do it whether we want them to or not.
We have no right to tell others how to live their lives. It's THEIR life, not OURS/YOURS. They have to suffer the consequences of their actions.
My brother was an EMT for a while. He once was on a call for a very obese guy that took like 4 EMT's to move. The guy hadn't been out of the house for years. On the ride to the hospital he said, "Please don't let me die, I don't want to die..." It was too late, he already had done the damage. He later died from a heart attack that night. So do we ban deserts? They have no nutritional value. They are not good for us, but we eat them anyway.
Do teenagers not have sex because we tell them not to? NO! They are going to do it no matter what we say. At least encourage them to practice safe sex if they are going to have it. There will still be some that don't. Hopefully they won't have to learn the hard way after they catch something that they can't get rid of. Should we make it illegal for them to have sex? They will still do it.