Safety and Legal Issues

--- rmenich@... wrote:
> If I point a gun at somebody's head and pull the trigger, then they have
> no choice in the matter: I have killed them.

Correct.

> If I ask someone to smoke a cigarette for 30 years, then they do have a
> choice to say "no". Even after they have started smoking, they have a
> choice to stop. Many, many people have stopped smoking, my father
> included.

You underestimate the power of advertising and peer pressure. Intersetingly
enough if someone makes it to 20 and is still a non-smoker then they'll stay a
non-smoker for the rest of their life. Pretty much everyone who starts to
smoke today starts in their teenage years.

Quitting smoking is a good idea but it can be very hard. There are a lot of
people who fail. Now if the nicotine content in cigarettes were to be
gradulary lowered they would start to lose their addictive qualities.