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

["J. Barkley Rosser, Jr." <rosserjb@xxxxxxx>]

Doug,
      Two points:
a)  Young kids may have been told but don't believe
it until it is too late, not to mention all that peer pressure,
etc.
b)  Externalities via second-hand smoke are a problem.
I may think it is fine if you smoke yourself to an early
death and remove yourself from the social security rolls.
But, if doing so makes other people sick, well, I think
you are showing your old Schmitz-supporting tendencies
here, Doug, :-).
       Bottom line:  I am not for the government forbidding
smoking.  But, I certainly support efforts to restrict and
encourage people not to do it, especially young non-smokers.
Barkley Rosser
-----Original Message-----
From: Doug Henwood <dhenwood@xxxxxxxxx>
To: pen-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <pen-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tuesday, November 21, 2000 5:08 PM
>Subject: [PEN-L:4707] Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: yet another US electile
disfunctioncommentary


>Eugene Coyle wrote:
>
>>     This sounds like the tobacco lawyers.  Tobacco carries an addictive
>>drug and, separately, kills people.  Michael talked about "discouraging"
>>not banning.
>
>Who are you, or Michael, to decide whether people should smoke? Or
>eat fatty food? Or drink martinis? Is there anyone on earth who
>doesn't know that cigarettes are addictive and dangerous?
>
>Doug
>
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