1/12: Canadian cigarette warnings

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Originally posted by Undertoad
If all this doesn't work, it is no longer about making them stop. It's no longer about public service messages. It's about making them feel bad - and us, the non-smokers, feel superior. It's about paying for the sins of the past. But it's not help, nor is it a reasonable substitute for help. How can it be help if it doesn't work?

As far as making them stand outside goes -- I have heard that there are (recent) studies that show that secondhand smoke is just as likely to cause cancer as smoking a cigarette through the filter. So, if you're going to poison your own body, that's fine. But don't pollute mine if you don't have to.

As far as the excessive taxing goes, and the states suing them -- like I said in the last post, if they're that worried then they should just make the damned things illegal. If they don't want to make them illegal, then stop bugging the smokers, because it's legal.