Many would say drinking is bad for everyone. Extreme sports can be dangerous as well. Individuals make their own choices and trade-offs in regards to their qual

Many would say drinking is bad for everyone. Extreme sports can be dangerous as well. Individuals make their own choices and trade-offs in regards to their quality of life. We have no more right to collectively compel individuals not to smoke, than we do to make them walk 30 minutes a day, stop drinking, never perform bicycle stunts above 5m, abstain from free climbing, or moderate their bacon intake. In my view, this is the strictly logical interpretation. A little levity in the form of a non-sequitur never hurt anyone. If you endeavored to answer the questions I posed in good faith, you would have found that I am not predicting some nightmare 1984 scenario at the ski chalet. The answers are obvious and pedestrian. Principles are inevitably dismissed in the name of practicality and pragmatism. This is the reality of governance. This is "why not". You admit as much when you speak of high fat foods. From where I stand, it is nothing more than an arbitrary hand wave. It is especially ironic after so many nitpicks (which I do not accept :P ) about the nature of argumentative logic. From this point forward it is strictly subjective sausage making. The US has found prohibition to be an untenable policy. As I understand, taxes on cigarettes in Australia make the price something like $20-$25 a pack. So how much for a truck load? How much does it cost to counterfeit? It is already happening in the US. The US has had black markets for cigarettes for 50+ years. Increasing taxes and prohibiting products does not work. It only serves to dilute what little regulatory power the state does have. Eventually people stop caring and say: "Everything fun is illegal anyways", "Returning to prison is inevitable", "My lawyer knows how to fix this", or "What could be more righteous than shirking authority while profiting from my oppression?". https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/divers https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/divers