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"we need no restrictions on our rights"

What do you mean specifically? Do you think smokers should be able to smoke anywhere? Quite frankly, I think it should be illegal to smoke cigarettes in front of minors or in the same room as minors. Should be filed under child abuse.

Freedoms do have to be measured against the rights of others to be free from others. ie., the right to eat in a restaurant without having a smoker, or even toker, right next to you. Such blanket statements are foolish. True freedom is a myth and impossible, as having total freedom means that others may lose their freedom as a result.

As to banning tobacco - doing so would result in a new crime wave unlike any we've known, without doubt. Nicotine is more addictive than coc*aine - do you then suppose that the crime industry wouldn't become violently interested in the vast black market that would arise from that?