Third Class Citizens

I know we've talked about this before, but as of today, the assumptions held by many have become reality. I'm talking about the outright abuse of supposedly free people who choose to use tobacco, a totally legal product. And as i've said before, IMO, this is not about whether you smoke or don't, in spite of the massive effort by the Left to create class warfare. This is about whether "free people" have the right to choose to use a legal product, even though others don't like it. Are we to live our lives according to the dictates of the Left? And if so, what will they not like next?

As a smoker, i have always been mindful of the feelings of others who do not smoke, even before it became fashionable or "the law". To me, it's just good manners. I don't smoke where i know it will bother someone else. But apparently, that's no longer enough. Now, i'm being hounded and punished and made to feel inferior, even though i don't. Here in NYC, smokers are treated worse, and looked down upon more than child molesters. BTW, as of yesterday, the price of a pack of cigarettes here is now $11.75. (that includes city, state, federal tax, + wholesalers and retailers increases) Can you think of another group of law-abiding citizens who are treated this way?

My question to our rulers is simple. If tobacco, the plant that's been used by man for thousands of years, is a scourge to mankind, as they claim, then why not simply outlaw it? Make the growing, possession, and sale of tobacco illegal, as they've done with so many other things. And since there are so few smokers left, it can't be because they fear the loss of tax revenue. All it would take is the stroke of a pen, and it's done! I'm sure the tobacco-Nazi's and the rest of the Left would wet themselves in joyous celebration. So why not do it?

Could it be something else? Could it be that the tobaccoNazi's know that if they did go for a "legal" all-out ban, they just might have to stand in an open court and prove all their wild claims about tobacco use? Would for example, "His Majesty", NYC's limp-wristed mayor Bloomberg, be able to actually prove his publicly-made claim that, "400,000 children die every year in NYC from 2nd-hand smoke"? Or perhaps, do they fear the bright lights of a public court room would make their claims seem like those made by the hysteria-inducing, fact-less, EnviroNazi's and their global warming scam?

I assume that most of our friends here are non-smokers, and may either not care about this assault on freedom, or even agree with it. My question to you is this. What happens when the lets-ban-something Nazi's get around to some legal thing you like doing?

http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/04/01/cigarette.tax/index.html