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To: Father Terrence who wrote (15483)	1/16/1998 6:59:00 PM
From: T.R.	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

Father Terrence, I can't defend or define it...I was giving it every benefit of the doubt when I said "on face value." The intent may appear to be good but what we forfit is a little more of our freedom. Our society has become so "numb" (or maybe apathetic is more appropriate)that we will most likely "sit around" and watch it all evaporate. I can't disagree with any of your comments, unfortunately they're all too true. T.R.

To: Father Terrence who wrote (15483)	1/17/1998 12:11:00 AM
From: Grainne	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

<2. Most Americans today forget (or are ignorant of the fact) that tobacco, alcohol, marijuana, heroin, cocaine, et. al. were once ALL legal in the United States. The government left it up to individuals to decide upon their non-use, use or misuse.> Father, with all due respect to your political views, I think one of the reasons drug and alcohol and smoking have become more regulated over time is not any kind of controlling, Prohibitionistic spirit in America, but simply that more is known about the dangerous/damaging aspects of them. Whether you believe there is a public health or not, it seems that public health education does work sometimes in changing subtance abuse patterns. Certainly in the case of children's welfare, there have been isolated cases recently where children have been given to the parent who does not smoke in contested custody situations, because of the dangers of second-hand smoke. In a car with the windows closed, the environment is even more toxic. Do you remember when there were no seat-belt laws, and no car seat laws and no motorcycle helmet laws? That was quite recently. Do you think these are unfair intrustions into our freedoms? They save lives, many lives of people without health insurance specifically, and this is definitely in the interests of public health, since taxpayer dollars are preserved.