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Originally Posted by hotreds

Hear, hear! Actually, I didn't mean to start a massive discussion when I posted the "vs" ramblings; it seemed like a good overview of the difference between the two- especially since many if not most people lump all tobacco together-- all the way to "third hand" smoke nowadays! Nonetheless, bottom line is "nanny" govt that "knows best" for all of us from tobacco to Happy Meals. I love my country, I fear my government!

Or... as Thomas Paine wrote in Common Sense:
"Society in every state is a blessing, but Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one: for when we suffer, or are exposed to the same miseries BY A GOVERNMENT, which we might expect in a country WITHOUT GOVERNMENT, our calamity is heightened by reflecting that we furnish the means by which we suffer."