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Old 12-09-2004, 12:02 PM   #14 (permalink)
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There's a difference between drinking and smoking. The act of drinking doesn't hurt anybody but the person whose liver has to filter the stuff. The act of smoking necessarily produces toxins that are unavoidable by the people around the smoker. To the extent that otherwise legal activities like drinking harm other people (e.g., driving drunk) they ARE illegal.
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