Crossposted at http://leftturnsonly.wordpress.com/
I work in the pharmaceutical field. Its not my career of choice, but in this economy any job is sacred. Specifically, I refill people's nebulizer breathing medications. Not all, but a good portion of my patients got to where they are by ruining their lungs with years of smoking. Now Medicare is paying for their expensive treatment. It is their body and they can do whatever they want to it.
Earlier this year, I lost my uncle to lung cancer. We weren't close, we hadn't even spoken since my Grandfather's funeral almost 10 years prior. But, now my cousin doesn't have a father, my dad, aunt and uncle don't have their sibling, and my grandmother had to bury her son. It was his body and he could do whatever he wanted to do.
This post isn't meant to be a diatribe against smoking, although I think that would be meritous. My purpose is to use the social ill of smoking to poke some holes in Libertarian theory.
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