[quote] Maybe you had a "blond moment" too (sorry, Jill). The book and the statistics it cites is evidence [/quote] If you're going to quote me, make sure you read what you're quoting first or you make yourself look foolish.
So if I'm reading this right, the claim that conservatives are more charitable than the liberals doesn't need any evidence to back it up other than people being told to buy a book and spend their time reading it, while claims that conservatives aren't more charitable than liberals have to be backed up by a masses of evidence?! So in the interest of maybe providing a bit of evidence that no-one has to pay for I thought I'd brush up on my now very rusty statistics and see
[quote] the same could be said about the smoke from a cars muffler, or the smoke from a BBQ grill, or drinking in excess (driving or not), or the garbage we throw on the ground everyday that make it to our water source [/quote] Yes people dropping litter on the ground should be banned, because, as with smoking, it is creating a negative externality (that is, a market failure which the free market cannot effectively address itself). The harm to the person who drops that garbage is far
Quite simple really. If you choose to smoke, and it's only harming your health, then fine - you've made that decision, it's your body, your right. If you choose to smoke and it harms everyone around you, then it's no longer fine - it's now your decision to harm them. Hence, there is a strong case for smoking being banned in public places. Otherwise you are effectively legalising someone who harms the health of others with or without their consent. It's not so much about busine
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