Just because you can effect health improvements by strict government controls, I don't think that means we should. > Now they have death penalty, no opium prob

Just because you can effect health improvements by strict government controls, I don't think that means we should. > Now they have death penalty, no opium problem anymore. Hardly a policy that I think makes sense in the US. We could solve 6/10 instances of obesity by a strict governmental intervention into diets. I don't think that would be "doing a good job", even if the health outcomes would be improved. We could eliminate tons of cancers by banning both tobacco and alcohol. I don't think we should (as a non-user, I hate everything about tobacco; I could easily reduce my ~20 drinks/year to 0). We could eliminate a lot of greenhouse gas emissions and heart disease by banning the farming, sale, and consumption of animals. I don't think we should.