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smoking effects those around us unlike helmets or seatbelts


The studies on secondhand smoke are seriously flawed. But it is very popular to go after smokers anyway. Most people just accept that the smoke is dangerous to others just because they don't like it. The actual evidence is very thin and almost completely anecdotal. Similar to the arguments over loud pipes.

We all like to think of ourselves as rugged individualists. But when push comes to shove most of us are sheep who do what we are told. Worst of all, a lot of us become unpaid agents of whoever is controlling the agenda by enforcing the current dogma on the few rugged individualists who actually exist.