[QUOTE="Mikey132"][QUOTE="Laihendi"] I am not seeing what this has to do with Ayn Rand. Also, banning cigarettes would be a civil rights violation considering that people choose to buy them willingly and at no cost to anyone else (unless you count medical expenses covered by taxpayers, which is actually due to government involvement in that industry as well).Laihendi
It was more to a point of being rational. The Government here raised taxes on cigarettes. 80% of the price is taxes. They are raping the addicted of thier money while saying it's for a good cause, so people will quit. Well I can find a much easier more effecient way to make people quit.... stop selling them. The other reason they added the taxes is so that smokers will end up paying thier own medical bills through the taxes. (and the taxes they get ar far more than the cost of killing a nation.)
In no one way did they come to a rational conclusion with this. If it's your right to kill yourself then why is suicide illegal here? I once chose to buy cocaine, yet it was illegal, and had I of been busted I doubt saying my civil rights were violated would hold and bearing.
So we could simply write a law saying Tabacoo is illegal and it wouldn't be a Human rights Violation right? People buy driugs that are stated illegal, even though they choose to buy it.
You do not seem to understand what I am saying. I am saying that cigarettes should remain legal because banning them would be a civil rights violation. By extension, the banning of other recreational drugs are also civil rights violations and as such should be repealed. I am not saying that your civil rights are some magical force that will protect you from being persecuted by the law. I am saying that the law should be made consistent with the rights of an individual. I actually agree with you on this. 
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