Re: yet another US electile disfunction commentary

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

Ken says:

>Be serious. THe idiotic policy implication does not follow at all. Smoking
>decreases the quality and length of life for the smoker and others. The
>point of the argument is to refute the claim that there should be a charge
>against tobacco companies and users because smokers cost the medical system
>more. In Canada this specious and incorrect claim is perhaps more effective
>since we have a universal medicare system.

You mean that Canadians tend to fall for the idea that since the 
state provides for health care, the state is entitled to punish 
unhealthy choices, behaviors, activities, etc.?

Yoshie