More evidence for why banning smoking is a good thing

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I don't mind cigarette smoke. In fact, when I was 19 I even took up smoking for four days. I smoked a total of 10 cigarettes before I gave it up. My real habit is chewing tobacco and, given the fact that I spend $88 a week on it ($22/tin) I am very much against laws that try and prohibit and prevent tobacco consumption. I mean come on, let me ingest any cancer-causing products I damn well feel and stop trying to make me feel bad for doing so. BAGH. Last year I found a gas station in the hills of Arkansas that was selling chew tins for $3 a pop. If you've seen the scene in Sicko where a woman finds the same medication for sale in Cuba for literally pennies when it was costing her hundreds of dollars to fill her prescription in America, you can picture my reaction to such a sight. I bought fifty of those fuckers and then a humidor in which to store them and every time I go to the States I always load up. Government measures against tobacco consumption are complete bullshit. They're not trying to eliminate a habit that I and hundreds of millions of others don't think is bad or dirty or sinful in any way - they're just cashing in on it. There will always be nicotine addicts, and over-taxing and banning it in public establishments won't do anything to stop it. It's like a crack dealer forcing an addict to suck his cock, man. Nicotine addicts get fucked in the ass by the government and they don't even give you a courtesy spit. The government is completely taking advantage of nicotene users for economic gain. I don't buy the public health aspect. If there's a bar where people are smoking and you don't like it, then don't go inside, dammit. Go to a different bar where people aren't smoking or an establishment where it's prohibited by the owner. Recently I was in a friend of mine's house, his own private dwelling, and he started smoking a cigarette. He was asked by another guest (a GUEST in my friend's house) to "take it outside." What an asshole! YOU go outside! I love nicotine and I hope that every Josh Beckett fan who sees him with a giant dip in his lip (I have yet to see him without one) buys a tin and picks up the glorious habit. And then maybe buys a pack of Marlbros.

I also take solace in the fact that in the unlikely event I get lip cancer my treatments are fully taken care of and I have no problems with people who get lung cancer from smoking cigarettes receiving total government coverage. That's probably a contradiction on my views of government involvement in public matters concerning healthcare and freedom of choice.