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Originally Posted by Charlatan
Toronto has banned smoking in all public and work places... I am all for this. We have public healthcare here and as we are paying to heal these people when they get sick from smoking, we should do *everything* possible to prevent the addiction in the first place.
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That argument won't fly unless you either accept the inherent hypocracy of judicious application or a universal steamroller of legislation that crushes every possible health-non enhancing act/interaction/process/substance ... you get the picture. The right of others to breath fresh air in a restaurant is persuable. The health cost of smoking is a specificly targeted argument that is more propoganda/spin doctor crap than anything else, or we would ban internal combustion and air conditioning and plastic and ...