^ Boo this man!

I already know what to do......

David,

Hmm. Are you sure? I mean, cigarettes have a huge public health cost - and they have tobacco in them. but they have a bunch of other things in them which are much worse for us. Tobacco is far from the deadliest ingredient. Most people don’t feel so strongly against cigars, which are much more tobacco-oriented. …

Let them smoke. My kids and I can move 10 feet. We aren’t egomaniacs who think the world should conform to our desires.

HA. so well said. and such a lucid observation. i must subscribe to your newsletter, for you have set the standard of intellectual inqiury so high, i doubt i will find a suitable substitute even among the worlds highest regarded known columnists. please, please, please share more of your capitivating insight with a…

Forgive any ignorance, but don’t I get billed for that shit? And motorcycles are dangerous, too, aren’t they? Gas burning engines are a public health risk. Same tariff? Alcohol is a public health risk. Food can be a public health risk. We can’t just slap taxes and tariffs on everything that puts people in the hospital…

or we could just treat everyone like grown ups, let them pay for own health care, and then it wont be yours or my business whether or not an individual chooses to smoke.

Where’s the bias? Trump’s knowledge of nuclear weapons is almost nonexistent. He didn’t even know what the Nuclear Triad was. Pointing out a person’s ignorance when they are in charge of making decisions is not bias.

I question your journalistic integrity, Mr. Tracy. It is not a crime to put bacon on ANYTHING.

Man there are so many reasons not to do this, ranging from selfish to public saftey.

This is a bad post and you should feel bad.

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