[NorthMountain]

You can refuse to accept it if you like, but you’re old enough to know better. You lived through it, same as me.

The aggressively arrogant conduct that was typical of 1970s cigarette smokers gave the nanny-staters an opening, and they took it. Big time.

Control yourself, or be controlled. The latter is always worse.

[going hot]

Arrogant conduct was not limited to cig smokers anywhere I was, which was quite a lot of places. Arrogancy is not something unique to cig smokers.

Using cig smokers to explain the nanny state is ridiculous. Your pushing it is even more so. In places I loitered, smokers were maybe 90 per cent of the population. other places, perhaps 10%. There was no correlation.

I say again, the smokers were not the opening or an opening. Nanny staters never needed an opening, just weakness on the part of the electorate, and perhaps, foolishness and gullibility in those who were coaxed into voting for them.