In news:Scott Lurndal typed:
"ted harris" writes:
In news:J. Clarke typed:
ted harris wrote:

Are you implying that tobacco use does not affect other people?

No, he's implying that if Marijuana was legal it would likely hurt
tobacco sales and thus the tobacco companies have a vested interest in
keeping it illegal. Please do try to follow the argument.

I find it interesting that you single out tobacco use as 'affecting
other people' but seem to ignore the effects of drunk driving.

I find it abolutely unbelievable that you don't understand the SIMPLE FACT
that when you drink, it does not make everyone else around you drunk!

And it is a SIMPLE FACT that if you smoke (by yourself, in your car, home
or workplace) you are only affecting yourself. Again, your analogy
falls down.

I personally don't care if you smoke and want to kill yourself, that is
fine. If you smoke anywhere in the presence of another person, you are now
affecting them. So how does my analogy fall down?

(Of course, if you're drunk, and kill someone in a car wreck, you are
affecting someone else, true?)

Yeah, but then you have to face the law...where are the laws to protect
non-smokers?

This debate is about sawstop, not smoking. Should we debate the smoking
issue as well?
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Ted Harris
http://www.tedharris.com