<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div></div><div>Be very careful with this argument. It could be used to criminalize all sorts of lifestyles that could conceivably damage health, including action sports and sexual promiscuity. Better live-and-let-live if you ask me. I leave you in peace and you leave me in peace.</div><div><br></div><div>By the way, Adolf Hitler was very much against smokers, drinkers and fat people.</div><div><br>On Apr 4, 2017, at 4:15 PM, William Flynn Wallace <<a href="mailto:foozler83@gmail.com">foozler83@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000">Here is a real poser for libertarians: the toxin most damaging to our health is tobacco. As nonsmokers we are paying a lot of our taxes for the health care of smokers and that just chaps my ass!</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000">Second is alcohol. Third is whatever is making people fat.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000">The rest of the toxins are very minor players indeed compared to those above. That we know of.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000">What is a libertarian to do? He doesn't want to dictate on other people's choices, but other people are infringing on his wallet!</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)">bill w</div><br></div></div></div>
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