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My name is Melissa B. and I live in Palm Springs, California (and sometimes in Germany). I believe that I have the right to be who I am without needing the government to regulate my morality. That means, if I want to smoke, it is not the government's decision to tell me I can or can not. They have not been given this power by the people of the United States nor by the Constitution that rulers are country.The problem with many people who advocate ending the prohibition of certain items or actions (smoking tobacco, drinking alcohol, engaging in bondage or gay sex, riding motorcycles without helmets, driving while not wearing seat belts, eating food high in cholesterol, et cetera...), is that they lack a consistent context for their debate.
All individuals have an equal right to life, liberty and property and the right to those exists as long as they do not violate the rights of life, liberty and property of others.
Actions which violate those rights such as theft, slavery, murder and fraud are wrong regardless of whether they are perpetrated by an individual or a group of individuals, such as those in a government. Rights you do not own cannot be transferred. Therefore if you do not have the right to initiate the threat of violence against others, you cannot legitimately transfer that right to the individuals in government.
What does that mean to cigarette smokers? That means that ownership of, trading in or voluntarily using tobacco is both a right to liberty and property, and as long as that right does not in some way violate the rights to life, liberty and property of anyone else, then no one has the right to initiate the threat of violence against you.
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