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   From: Voter@Vote2016.com   
      
   There are over 400,000 deaths due to smoking per year.  This is insane.    
   (Compare   
   this to less than 200 deaths per year to massacres.)  Banning smoking in public   
   does not solve the problem, and violates my, and your, human, and civil rights.   
   You're not wrong to smoke a cigarette!  Regulation of commerce is the solution.   
   Cigarettes should not be allowed to be sold in the checkout lanes, but ought   
   to be   
   sold out of sight, out of mind, and not as an impulse item.  They should be in   
   separate unmarked stores, or through a separate door to the supermarket, or at   
   least in a special section that a shopper will not stumble across unless the   
   shopper is deliberately looking for them.  Selling cigarettes as an impulse   
   item   
   in the checkout lane is a sin!  Because it is totally unnecessary.  It takes an   
   interest only in pure profit.  Tobacco is not _FOR_ smoking.  People are   
   evilly,   
   and erroneously, telling us, that tobacco _is_ for smoking!  But it isn't   
   wrong to   
   smoke!  Just obviously bad and unhealthy.   
      
   Put warning labels on cigarettes, advising shoppers of the following:   
   Poison.  Not for recreational use.  Not illegal to consume recreationally.   
      
   Cigarettes shouldn't be marketed for recreation, nor commercially promoted for   
   recreational purposes!   
      
   Cigarette advertisements should be limited to magazines like Cigar Aficionado,   
   and   
   regulated so that they make only true statements.  Such as: "Lower Tar."   
      
   Before a commercial business engaged in profit through cigarette sale can sell   
   cigarettes to someone, that person ought to have to pass a test on the dangers   
   of   
   cigarette smoking, advising them how stupid they are.  It's not a crime to   
   otherwise sell, just ticket the "business."  Regulation of commerce is in the   
   Constitution!  Article 1, Section 8, Clause 3.  This should be a civil, and   
   not a   
   criminal matter.  At worst, if the business doesn't stop, it should at most,   
   become like repossession of a car.  Most businesses will stop.   
      
   Smoking cigarettes is as stupid as inhaling glue.  At least glue has warning   
   labels, and is not commercially promoted as a recreation.  My research suggests   
   that apparently less than 1,000 people die to huffing per year.  About one   
   million   
   people huff the dozens of paints and glues and solvents that can be used for   
   this   
   purpose.  They are not wrong!  They may be risking damage to their hearts,   
   their   
   kidneys, and their brains, which is obviously bad and unhealthy.  Over fifty   
   million people smoke cigarettes.  Yes, that's right FIFTY MILLION.  In   
   addition to   
   nearly 500,000 deaths, persistent cigarette smokers also risk serious damage to   
   their health.  I think the juxtaposition of the numbers related to huffing and   
   cigarette smoking are stupefying, and speak for themselves.  Review them again.   
      
   If people want to smoke cigarettes, that is their civil, human, and unalienable   
   right.  But to allow the COMMERCIAL PROMOTION of this physically degenerative   
   and   
   destructive item, as a recreational activity, is shameful.  Sort of like   
   marketing   
   soft drinks as athletic drinks; or alcohol, or tuna fish, as fit for pregnant   
   mothers.  Tuna Fish!  Which has so much mercury, you're advised not to eat over   
   half a can of it per week yourself!  It's not negatively labeled either, and it   
   probably shouldn't even be sold as food!  It certainly is unfit for pregnant   
   mothers.  As is alcohol.  And while people playing "Over The Line Baseball"   
   may do   
   so and get drunk, and while people going bowling do the same, commercially   
   marketing alcohol for these purposes is deplorable!  Why market alcohol,   
   cigarettes, marijuana, or any of the other drugs, you have a human right to   
   use,   
   as recreation?!  Yes this is my point, moving towards the legalization of all   
   drugs, in a sane manner.  And if anyone has any good, intelligent, or ingenious   
   ideas, we need them!   
      
   "The Congress shall have the power to... regulate commerce with foreign   
   nations,   
   and among the several states, and with the Indian tribes."   
   - U.S. Constitution, Article 1, Section 8, Clause 3:   
      
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