Thread:Comments:All US states could have smoke-free laws by 2020/'liberty'

"Gary Nolan of the Smokers Club, a smoker's rights group, said, "It wouldn't surprise me if they prevailed." He noted that heavy pressure is being applied to bars and restaurants by public health officials to ban smoking. "It's just a little bit more liberty slipping away at the hands of big government.""

Right, your liberty being that to damage other people's lives as well as your own. If you stab yourself and me on the same day, and you die of complications 10 years from then, while I die of complications 20 years from then, it's still murder, isn't it? I'm still waiting for tobacco to be declared a chemical weapon of mass destruction. I guess it just doesn't kill fast enough, but then half of the reasons for banning atomic bombs would be gone. Or maybe it's because it wasn't designed to kill. Perhaps if mustard gas had been discovered while someone was researching anesthetics, it wouldn't be classified as a chemical weapon? 66.154.183.15 (talk) 21:00, 25 April 2011 (UTC)