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From: rjc@snow.UUCP (R.caley)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: Seat-belt laws
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Date: Mon, 18-Feb-85 22:07:07 EST
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>From: mfs@mhuxr.UUCP (SIMON)
>Newsgroups: net.politics
>Message-ID: <241@mhuxr.UUCP>
>Date: Thu, 7-Feb-85 23:14:38 GMT
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>>
>> Now if medical or
>> insurance expenses were really the excuse, wouldn't there be an effort to
>> prohibit smoking?
>
>There IS an effort to prohibit smoking. It runs into opposition by:
>a) smokers, who claim that their "freedoms" would be abridged
>b) tobacco farmers, who don't want to lose those profitable subsidies.
>

Both groups are in the right.I don't smoke but I don't object to other people
doing it (Though I would point out to them that it is not a good
idea).Similally the farmers have a right to grow whatever they like.The
same applys to any other drug or anything else

        "Hey fat causes heart failure which puts up medical costs,so
        why dont we make fast food illegal" :-)
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