Certainly a level of hypocrisy is present in all human beings but doctors smoking seems to be a bit out of place with the rest. Wouldn't regularly committing a

Certainly a level of hypocrisy is present in all human beings but doctors smoking seems to be a bit out of place with the rest. Wouldn't regularly committing a crime in your day-to-day life preclude you from also being an effective police officer? That is, a doctor smoking doesn't have any real repercussions other than that they're not following their own advice. The law enforcement officer, however, violating the law seems to be not disobeying his own advice, but disobeying the rules that we as society have set forth. In effect, his actions impact his ability to act as an enforcer of the law. The doctor simply gives advice, the patient can always choose to ignore it with no external repercussions. By committing crimes, it seems that the officer is actually negligent in his duties and unfit for holding his office. By the way, this isn't a statement about the occurrence, merely a statement about what ought to be (i.e., is vs. ought). If you were simply saying that it's not uncommon for humans to be hypocritical, I completely agree with that.