[Ol' Bob]

We are not free to poison each other. Poison ourselves, maybe. Do you want to be the one who gets to name the poisons and determine the parts per million/billion levels? I think the science is there, and you no longer have that option.

Freedom to do what you want with no other considerations simply cannot work. The tobacco lobby doesn't like that. Good luck to your lungs when you're my age. You can be happy, or not, for the industry you helped enrich.

I remember when I was in the navy on a diesel submarine with 80 other guys, all lit up, all the time. We would smoke when the air was so depleted of oxygen and loaded with carbon dioxide that fire would only smolder and could not flame. The only way to light up was to use the electric (car type) cigarette lighter in the Control Room, or get a touch off another's burning butt. When we couldn't light a match or a Zippo, we still had to keep getting our fix.

When we were outside the "three mile limit," (and tax free) the good folks at the tobacco companies made their product available to us of the GI persuasion at 50 cents a carton. They knew where to invest.