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Stores sell tons of cigarettes, cigars and chewing tobacco and they do it legally — there’s nothing wrong with that and those who think it’s wrong shouldn’t use or sell tobacco products.
Secondhand smoke? How about exhaust from cars on crowded roads? What should we do to the manufacturers? Make them stop selling cars, trucks, motor boats, ATVs, lawn mowers and trimmers? You know, folks, it’s never going to happen.
If we gave our attention to drugs instead of smoke products, we might get somewhere. One has to be of age to buy cigarettes, etc., but one can buy drugs illegally at just about any age.
How many people die of smoking compared to drug use? Our priorities are backwards. We need to fight the worst problem first or are we afraid of the consequences?
Go spend three months in a large city, such as New York, Chicago, Atlanta or Phoenix, where people lock their doors and don’t go out alone at night and where the innocent are killed for being in the wrong place, such as one’s own house, yard or car.
How many people are killed for having a cigarette that they purchased legally? What the heck is next on the list — liquor use?
And what about when one is in a store which sells tobacco products, can’t they get cancer from tobacco odors — like secondhand smoke?
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