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So maybe it's not easy to get rid of selfish greed, but here's the flip side of the coin: Some people care so much about what other people are doing, it's completely ridiculous. In the US, the banning, taxation, and advertising against the smoking of cigarettes has become huge. The fact that there are announcements on television criticizing tobacco companies for existing is ludicrous. In this land where cash is king, someone paid money to tell me that smoking shouldn't exist. Why? because they don't like it. Oftentimes when you try to bring this up with a nonsmoker they will just say "Oh well it's to protect us from second hand smoke, and it smells bad." Okay, I understand why you wouldn't want to be around cigarette smoke, but get this, maybe if you weren't a dick about it, people would give you your space and you could give them theirs. How did people forget about prohibition so fast? Back when it was arbitrarily decided that no one should drink because it was bad? That turned out so well. I bet if we try the same thing with smoking America will be a happier place. Might as well try it with homosexuals too, I'm sure pissing off all the gays will make this a better place. What are people afraid of, second-hand gay? You can't wave a flag and say "let freedom ring," unless you tag on at the end "unless you do something I don't like even though it doesn't really effect me."

The freedom to do only safe, healthy things is no freedom.

thought for tomorrow: I'd be more worried about second hand car exhaust