NPR : Making a 'Smoking' Satire of the Lobbying Industry

NPR : Making a 'Smoking' Satire of the Lobbying Industry

Should probaby go see this....

For the record - I hate smoking - I am sick at the very thought that my son lights up (cigarettes)- sick with it! However, I believe people have a right to smoke; just like I believe they have a right to drink, to do drugs etc - it's THEIR bodies, which means, ultimately, they have the right to abuse those bodies. I think that makes them idiots but that's just me. Now perhaps the issue should be about do *I* have to be the one to help PAY for their medical care when those bodies go south from that very abuse? Well I don't think so. Perhaps the answer is that they have to pay higher premiums for their health care.

When we begin to take away people's right to do such things as smoke, and drink, or have certain types of sex, then something very wrong is happening in this country and it's scary. If people are committing crimes that's one thing - but it's not a crime to have a cigarette/cigar with a glass of whiskey - we would have had to put my dad and all his brothers in jail years ago...and that's crazy talk.