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Originally Posted by Ryzorian
Life is dangerous, should we stop trying to live it?. I mean really, if someone wants to smoke, that's thier choice just like drinking, doing drugs, jumping out of perfectly good airplanes, scaleing 30,000 foot mountains in winter with one rope. As long as what they do isn't going to interfere with someone else let them do what they want.
That should be the rule about it, if they don't hurt anyone else with thier activities, stop henpecking them.
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That's the problem, isn't it? What they do
does hurt other people in many of those examples . . . second-hand smoke can be just as deadly as smoking itself, and drink/drugs lowers one's inhibitions and can make some people rather violent. I think many of the laws/rules involving these things are quite reasonable, and it's also reasonable to try and get people to stop behaviours that are a risk to themselves and others.
Plus jumping out of planes and rock-climbing are 'safe' activities, you do them with the expectation you'll make it out alive. Smoking causes damage regardless of any possible 'precautions', so it's not a risk but an actual threat, hardly comparable to the other examples.