Smoking in France a thing of the past?

[innerSpaceman]

You don't see that as a stretch, huh?


Um, wow.



But any way you cut it .... cell phones, if a health risk, are one to the person who chooses to use them. Frankly, seat belts and helmets are dangerous in the same individual choice way.


Cigarettes are not.


The analogy that a McDonalds diet poses a health risk to others because of, what?, public health care funds taken from a cancer patient to pay for a triple bypass? Um, that's even more of a stretch than the cell phone ban.


Nope, of all the personal vices and habits ... I think smoking is unique in the way it excretes its chemical danger into the atmosphere surrounding the choice-making user.

Hmmm, perhaps driving itself comes under this category, too. Maybe a ban on driving in public places is in store for us all.

[Moonliner]

Originally Posted by innerSpaceman

The analogy that a McDonalds diet poses a health risk to others because of, what?, public health care funds taken from a cancer patient to pay for a triple bypass? Um, that's even more of a stretch than the cell phone ban.

That's pretty much the rational that was used to pass the helmet and seat belt laws we already have in place across this country. So why would you see that as a stretch?