[vpFREE] Re: Smoking Bans - WAS Jean Scott's Frugal Vegas BLOG - 13 JAN 2008

>
> BOB
>
> >> 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.
> >>
>>
> > WORLD
> >
> >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.
>
> BOB
>
> 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.
>

Clearly we don't do that in the US. My only point is that
there's no conspiracy of pols to steal these rights, just
attempts to control behaviour that can be harmful to society
at large. Happens all the time. Note that I'm not condeming
smokers. I've found most will do anything to accomodate
non-smokers if they simply ask. Like all things though,
it's frequently about how you approach the problem.

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