re: New Orleans City Council Passes Smoking Ban

The anti-smokers' frequent fallback argument, that "smoking costs society money" isn't even true. As the New England Journal of Medicine put it

"...in a population in which no one smoked the costs would be 7% higher among men and 4% higher among women than the costs in the current mixed population of smokers and non-smokers... complete smoking cessation would produce a net increase in health care costs."


The Heartland Institute adds

"Smokers already pay taxes that are too high to be fair, and far above any cost they impose on the rest of society."


Thus, smoking may be the only unhealthy activity that pays for itself with enough money to spare for public projects!

It's about time smokers stop being ashamed. Instead they should start speaking up, and fighting to regain the rights that have already been taken away from them.

--Jonas Jagielski
Kalmazoo
Contributor

More higher taxes just around the corner.
Ain't it grand?!