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As long as Jack's ox is not being gored, he's all for the public health/pseudo-science crowd, and taxing me out of existence and marginalizing me. There's no problem with that since, you know, he doesn't smoke.

That's Scott over at The Fat Guy in response to a post from another blogger who now worries that the meddlers who went after smokers might now want regulate and interfere with his lifestyle choices.

The anti-smoking efforts bothered me for many reasons. The worst, i think, was how dishonest the proponents were. They talked about making "big tobacco companies pay", but the fact is all that settlement money is coming from smokers not shareholders. Their class war rhetoric disguised the fact they wanted to meddle in their fellow citizens's lives. They distorted the meaning of "public health" and talked about "economic costs of smoking" that were fairy tales.