Reply #105: Yes, and you can feel it when you haven't lived in populated area

[sabrina 1]

for a while. I love how people pretend that if they could ban smoking their air would be pure. And how they ignore their own contribution to fouling everyone else's air. It's all about 'me', 'my air' ~ .

People love scapegoats for some reason. It's not that I am promoting smoking, it's just that the arguments made with such intensity, bordering on hatred sometimes, by some anti-smokers are totally irrational when you consider that even if everyone stopped smoking tomorrow, they would still be breathing in massive amounts of pollution every day.

I object to the tactics and the attempt to create yet another 'other' in this society to ostracize and insult with impunity. As if we don't have enough already ... it's the autoritarianism, lacking any rational thought, that bothers me about groups who adapt a 'cause' and make no attempt to even have a rational discussion. Just 'my way or the highway'.

I think there is something more than concern about health going on.

I fear the takeover of authoritarians far more than the risks we face just by living every day and which we can make choices about.

I get the feeling that if it wasn't smoking, it would be something else to use as a bludgeon against 'lesser beings' for some of those people.