Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: yet another US electiledisfunctioncommentary

[Carrol Cox <cbcox@xxxxxxxxx>]

Doug Henwood wrote:

> 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?

I still have no opinion really on the main issue (to control or not to
control), but in answer to your last question -- everyone under about
25 who isn't already smoking doesn't know. It is really stupid to
speak of people "knowing" what an addiction is like.

Carrol