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If smoking is so bad then ban cigars and cigarettes. As a non-smoker, I am tired on hearing nanny-state politicians caterwauling about the dangers of smoking while they continue to accept tax money on tobacco sales and extortion money from fraudulent tobacco lawsuits.

Smoking is bad for you. So is not getting enough sleep. So is eating red meat. So is spending too much time in the sun. Life is a fatal disease. Smokers and nonsmokers alike need to be outraged over these absurd smoking bans because it puts us on a steep descent into a socialist hellhole where we will have no freedom.

The flip side of freedom is responsibility and taking personal responsibility is a choice that every American should make for himself. The rationale that health care expenses have gone up because of smoking-related deaths is sketchy at best and dishonest at worst. There are folks who smoke every day and don't get cancer and those who don't smoke who do get cancer.

The slope here is not a slippery one but a steep one, where we are holding onto our freedoms by a few threads. The same nanny-state nonsense that dictates that smoking in public places should be banned because of health issues is the same nonsense that will result in national mandatory health screenings, like the one that Democrat presidential candidate and ambulance chaser John Edwards recently proposed.

This elitist thinking will also say that you should not be outside between 11am and 6pm because you might get skin cancer and, of course, the health care costs to all of us will go up. This is communist propaganda disguised as feel-good politics promoted by folks who believe that you are too stupid to think for yourself.

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