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Originally Posted by Ford Prefect
I still think the government is going about this the wrong way ... just like the rest of their anti-smoking legislation. Legislation against smoking in vehicles is an indirect way of attacking smoking. As you've pointed out, it's really a legislation against stupidity as much as it is against smoking.
If the government wants to stop smoking, make it illegal. If that's really their goal, why not take direct legislative action against smoking itself, rather than indirect legislation that often targets individual rights and lifestyle choices. I'd rather see the government just make tobacco use illegal than establish precedent setting individual rights and lifestyle legislation. Failure to legislate against smoking directly makes me wonder if governments are too addicted to tobacco taxes to have the will to actually make it illegal.
For what it's worth ... I'm a casual cigar smoker, not a non-smoker or an anti-smoker.
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I suppose the obvious answer is that if the government made tobacco illegal we'd be witnessing the birth of the largest/newest black market in North America, probably worth 10's or 100's of billions of dollars. If some people think marijuana dealing/use is prevalent, wait until cigarettes are illegal! Tobacco hydro grow-ops!