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To: abuelita who wrote (16547)4/6/2007 12:34:48 AM
From: Maurice Winn  Read Replies (2) of 217901
 
Rose, what about "diseases caused by cigarettes" which are in fact caused by 100 variables including the DNA of the person who CHOOSES to suck smoke into their lungs?

Would you extend such "guilt" to all other products? I guess you are in favour of governments and lawyers running everything. People will be able to park their brains permanently and leave their lives to you, their governments and their suppliers and lots and lots of lawyers.

There is an infinite array of products and ways to use them which people can choose and a vast array of harms that will result. It is obvious that people choosing to harm themselves should bear the cost of their choice. If governments choose to rob third parties [aka taxpayers] to pay for the medical treatment of the stupid, careless, suicidal and unlucky, then that's up to them and their electorates.

Governments should be honest and just say they are introducing big new taxes on cigarette companies and not dress it up as some ethical thing they are doing.

If they want to blame cigarette companies for what happens to people who choose to smoke, they should pay the cigarette companies for killing off swarms of people in the lower socioeconomic groups who would otherwise collect an old age pension for decades if not for the smokes. Smokers are more generally the lower socioeconomic group and on average less intelligent than non-smokers and are more generally dependent on taxpayer pensions than the smarter, richer, non-smokers.

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