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To: one_less who wrote (76992)	4/6/2000 2:31:00 PM
From: Edwarda	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 108807

brees, you are belaboring the drug and alcohol issue rather than responding to the core of my posting, which follows: no action can be considered without consequences. Do we regulate all activity because of potential consequences? If not, where do we as a society draw the lines?

To: one_less who wrote (76992)	4/6/2000 2:32:00 PM
From: Jacques Chitte	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 108807

The trouble is that one person's overwhelming evidence is another's controversial spin. >All of us can look back over a twenty year time slot and find that nearly every one in this country has been affected in tragic ways by this problem.< I don't buy this. Imagine for a moment if tobacco were banned or otherwise punitively restricted. The real tragedy here would be the instant creation of a criminal underclass of previously and otherwise upstanding citizens. Worse, those with tobacco-related health problems (plausibly related, not proven of course) might in all likelihood find themselves thrown out of their health plans! I cannot quickly imagine a legislative event that would yield a more illiberal outcome. And that's illiberal in the old-school sense of the term "liberal", the one concerned with a citizen's freedom.