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Re: Re: Re: Re: yet another US electile disfunctioncommentary

Doug,
    This sounds like the tobacco lawyers.  Tobacco carries an addictive
drug and, separately, kills people.  Michael talked about "discouraging"
not banning.

Gene Coyle

Doug Henwood wrote:

> Michael Perelman wrote:
>
> >True enough, but don't the adverse consequences of tobacco hit the
> >working-class
> >harder?  So, discouraging smoking by taxes might have positive
> >consequences over the
> >long run.
>
> Shouldn't people decide for themselves whether to smoke? Do you think
> you should prescribe their diet too?
>
> Doug
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