Doug Casey on Tobacco

[Cardinal]

“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience. They may be more likely to go to Heaven yet at the same time likelier to make a Hell of earth. This very kindness stings with intolerable insult. To be "cured" against one's will and cured of states which we may not regard as disease is to be put on a level of those who have not yet reached the age of reason or those who never will; to be classed with infants, imbeciles, and domestic animals.” ― C.S. Lewis

Mr. Lewis was a smart man.

Odd tho when they so often stink of cheap perfumes etc. Complain of a smoker in a nearby apartment while burning cheap strongly scented candles and/or filling their apartments with sprays of all sorts.

No kidding. Can those foul, reeking candles really be any better for you than a few wisps of second-hand smoke that drift past you outside? I really don't get the second-hand smoke thing, except as a mechanism to demonize smokers. If second-hand smoke really killed, no more than a handful of children would have survived the 50s-60s-70s.