Put that in your pipe and smoke it

About this “no smoking” craze that seems to be sweeping the country and changing some peoples’ lives for the better through high priced tobacco and the fact that smoking is not healthy being shoved down peoples’ throats, it has its bad things too.  Although people certainly have the right to breathe air without cigarette smoke in it (notice I didn’t say ”fresh air” because I don’t know where you’re gonna find it anymore), people certainly have the right to pollute their bodies with tobacco also.  It may be a nasty habit, but I can think of some much worse ones that don’t get as much attention as cigarettes but cause more damage.

One person drinking alcohol, for example, can have much worse reprecussions on non-drinkers than a smoker would on non-smokers.  If a person who had a few drinks did something that the effects of alcohol had impaired his ability to do, the results could be disastrous.  A person intoxicated by alcohol could do anything from rape, murder (including suicide), kidnapping, an other heinous crimes.  A person’s inhibitions are virtually nil after so many drinks, also.  Women become, I dare say more slutty, and men become more violently agressive.  All of these actions, which just scrape the surface, are the results of alcohol which most people come in contact with directly or indirectly about every day.  What harm does tobacco do besides put some smoke in the air and harm the health of the person who is smoking it, besides cause minor harm to anyone who may be breathing the second hand smoke?  If the big arguement to end smoking in outdoor public places is second hand smoke, then someone is missing the bigger picture of the big CO2 producing giants called factories, cars, and on and on.  The point I’m making is the air is already bad and there are worse pollutants to pick on to clean it up besides cigarettes.  Not just that, but people have free will and the right to do what they want.  If a person has the right to look at pornography on the internet or get drunk and who-knows-what(!), why can’t a person sit on a park bench, open up a book and have a cigarette?