[Ken H]

By the same token, anyone who wants to smoke, in spite of the known dangers should be able to do so, just like anyone who wants to eat fatty food should be able to without being made to feel inferior.

I agree, but until the government quits forcing me to pay for your right to indulge, restrictions are necessary. Get rid of the welfare state, then we'll talk. < /vile nanny statist>

I think it was the late Milton Berle who said "If you quit smoking, drinking, gambling, playing cards and sex, you won't live forever.....it'll just seem like it."

You sure that wasn't Bill Bennett?

[Aleya2Fairlie]

It may well have been Bill Bennet. And I agree wholeheartedly about the welfare state.

In the last years I smoked, I paid for them out of earned wages and paid more than non-smokers for my health insurance.