Anti-smokers get the same smug high as racists did in the past,when governments tacitly and occasionally,as in the case of Australia included racist policies of segregation of indigenous people,the theft of their children on the grounds of aboriginality and brainwashed the population to fear the "Yellow Peril".Most people today are abhorrent regarding the past bigotry,and yet these practises were supposedly done with the very best of intention.
Smokers are not a huge cost to the health or pension system as is currently believed by the brainwashed masses.They die earlier,and the diseases they are most noted for dying from tend to be relatively short and inexpensive.Not forgetting the extra taxes they have paid to smoke in the first place.Cardio-vascular problems are rife amongst non-smokers too - fatties next...
People who are required to take drugs for schizophrenia almost universally smoke because it alleviates the side effects of the pharma-drugs.Who isn't to say that many smokers have a similar innate cerebral requirement - perhaps their nicotinic receptors have failed them in the first place,who knows.The biblical,'as you judge,so shall you too be judged' comes to mind in regard to the vocally self-righteous.You bet they'll be the first to scream discrimination when something similar is aimed their way in the future.
The costliest people in terms of health care,aged care and pensions are those who live the longest,so we now have the BBC and others starting the push for "choice" aka euthenasia.Watch this one grow,step by step,just as has been done to smokers.People will find that the public system will not provide them with aged care,as in the past,and the charges are already substantial and growing.Some may "choose" to terminate their lives in response,with the full support of the government of the day.Remember the Fascists referred to the elderly,disabled and infirm as "useless eaters",and no doubt they had a vocal brigade of supporters at the time.
