For Teenage Smokers, Removing the Allure of the Pack
4th August 2012
Tina Rosenberg, Voice of the Crust, wants to nanny-state you even more than you are already. ‘It’s for the children!’
I’m not going to bother quoting any of her article, because it’s the same old we’re-doing-it-because-you’re-too-stupid-to-know-what’s-good-for-you logic that she would be the first to denounce if opponents of things like abortion or pornography or drugs or whatever the left-wing Neat Thing To Do of the week might be. I’d bet money she’s a huge supporter of Nanny Bloomberg’s attempts to make you Eat Right And Live Straight, by law if necessary.
Hey, I’ve got an idea! Let’s let people run their own lives, alright? If smoking poses no danger to others — and it doesn’t, bogus claims of ‘second-hand smoke’ to the contrary notwithstanding, however annoying it may be to those of us who don’t smoke — then Keep Your Nose Out.
This attitude is a major reason why government-funded (i.e. taxpayer-funded) health care is such a bad idea: Once everybody starts paying for your health care, then everybody thinks they have a right to stick their noses into your health care decisions, even when it’s obviously None Of Their Damned Business. This way lies fascism, and the fact that it’s dressed in a pretty blue-state Democrat Clever Plastic Disguise ought not to fool anybody (except the fools who are pushing it — and those, like the poor, we have always with us).