re: #7 FurryOldGuyJeans

Yes, that is a valid argument. Thus, in a nutshell, why I am against government intervention.

A very tangled web. They take on the responsibility of covering health care cost for citizens, (Medicare) subsidize tobacco farmers, and then tax tobacco companies, buyers, retailers, thereafter taking them to court.

I have no love loss for the tobacco companies. THEY chemically manipulated their products for the explicit purpose of getting people dependent.

But, I do not see the government as some knight riding a white horse either.

Smoking serves no purpose. None. It kills people in the end.