worldbefree22001:
>> Why doesn't everyone really say what outlawing
>> smoking really is? It's social engineering and
>> politicians that want power over people to take
>> away their rights. Seat belt laws, helmet laws
>> and many more similar laws are all the same.
>>
>> Bob
>>
>
>When I was young I worked at a university hospital
>in a small rural State. I used to see all sorts of
>people who exercised their rights not to wear seat
>belts, not to use a helmet and not to have health
>insurance.
>
>These cases frequently costs taxpayers north of 1/2 a
>million dollars each. If you want the freedom it
>needs to be coupled with responsility -- it seldom is.
Maybe that it cost taxpayers is the problem. Assuming wearing helmets
makes a significant difference, what's wrong with a law that says that
if a motorcyclist neither wears a helmet, pays for health insurance,
nor can pay for medical treatment, he's not entitled to it? Smoking
in a way that doesn't hurt anyone else shouldn't be outlawed, but
whoever can't pay for treating the medical problems that smoking
caused shouldn't be entitled to it.
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