Johnny, On the tobacco topic - I think a lot of the present administration's animosity toward the tobacco industry is purely political. The tobacco industry supports the other party, and they don't like that.
The recent "Surgeon General" (who resigned in disgrace) condemned tobacco in the strongest terms and even had a televised event where she threw containers of chewing tobacco in a garbage can.
But she wanted to legalize the more dangerous drugs and let people choose to use them or not. A large contradiction, I'd say. If they are going to be consistent, they should go against all drugs, tobacco, alcohol and caffiene. Did I leave anything out?
By the way, what is so valuable about hemp? Seems I heard something about that a few years ago, but it was just in passing and I don't remember what it was. Isn't there some running shoe company that wanted to make a model of running shoes out of it?
Oh yes, you mentioned vegetarianism. Nothing wrong with that. I eat meat once in a while, but my wife has us all on a vegetarian diet at home. In the Book of Daniel, in the Bible, is the account of how Daniel and his three friends, Shadrach, Meshech and Abednigo chose to eat a vegetarian diet rather than the Babylonian meats (which weren't prepared according to Jewish dietary laws). Their overseer (they were captives) didn't want to allow them to eat anything but the King's food, but they persuaded him to let them try it for ten days. He did, and, as it is recorded, "And at the end of ten days their countenances appeared fairer and fatter in flesh than all the children which did eat the portion of the king's meat." Daniel 1:15. So vegetarianism was good for them.
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