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To: GROUND ZERO™ who wrote (2492)	3/18/2007 10:21:40 AM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Read Replies (1) of 25737

Re: "Nicotine addiction brings disease, disability, and death to all who use it." I would never dispute that point. But that is not what we were talking about. The question was not 'how many people harm themselves', but rather was about HOW MANY are killed or robbed by 'addicts'. In other words: innocents harmed by others. A COMPLETELY different thing entirely. A different example: the fat in MacDonald's fast food likely is 'responsible' for many, many heart attack deaths. Yet, it is people's RIGHT to eat what they want to (regardless of if it is 'good for them', or not...) ONLY if the government were to ban burgers, (thus criminalizing those who make and who eat them), would there most likely develop a criminal underclass supplying and consuming them... (&, not so incidentally, adding to the prison population....)

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