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My grandfather was an attorney (before that was a bad word) who fought the tobacco companies. I consider this a good thing, because it was in the era when they were still trying to tell people that smoking is good for you, when they plainly knew otherwise.

I don't think he would be pleased with the direction anti-tobacco law has moved since his death in 1987, however, with multi-billion dollar class-action lawsuits in California being a regular occurrence. Seriously, who doesn't know smoking's going to kill you now? If you want to do it, that's great, but please.. take responsibility for your own actions.

Of course, I believe this should also apply to soft drugs like marijuana and LSD, and perhaps even hard drugs like heroin and cocaine. I don't think it's the government's job to regulate my state of mind or what I put in my body.

Are you very old? Attorney has always been a dirty word. And nobody needed the government to tell them that smoking wasn't good for them, but there used to be an understanding that everybody dies from something.

The only difference between attorneys then and now is they've got the jackboot planted even more firmly on our necks.

I think it was a good thing that the tobacco companies were "outed" when they were trying to say smoking was healthy. But now that the Tobacco War is over we still have a plethora of do gooders looking for the next train to jump on, or as I see it, the next charge code to hit. You can see how these people are trying so hard to get their claws into the "obesity battle". They want to tax Burger King and Ice Cream makers. They bring up statistics of how many people die from obesity every year. (Never mind that we all die of something. Where this leads is more government regulation, therefore less freedom, and a whole other tribe of do nothing do gooders running around calling people names.

The Drug War is doing good on steroids. Think of all the people who have an economic interest to keep illegal drugs illegal. This country is no longer about freedom, but about telling other people how to live their lives which is anti-freedom.

Speaking of steroids, the Balco guy got sentenced yesterday. Just goes to show you the pharmaceutical companies are getting some payback in their million dollar K Street lobbying firms. From what I have read, Babe Ruth liked to drink alot and was so fat the Yankees implemented the pin-strip uniform to make him look thin. Maybe we should require all Major League players to be drunk and overweight just like to Babe so the records can be compared from one era to another. After all, aren't we penalizing Barry Bonds, Mark McGwire, and Raphael Palmerio for trying to be in the best shape that they can?