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Originally Posted by orangebird
Why don't you start a new thread about car fumes killing you too? And another one about how you're teetotal because of the potentially devasting effects that alcohol can have?  |
I think it's a matter of degrees OB. Yes, cars and alcohol (amongst many other things) have a detrimental effect on health and/or the environment, but smoking is the single biggest cause of preventable, premature death in this country, by quite some way. The costs to society and the economy are vast, and I think banning smoking in public is a long overdue, but thoroughly proportionate, response to it.