G.P. Lehmann

The anti smoking lobbyists always need a new project. Smokers have been banned from restaurants, bars, patios, in front of public buildings, in cars with kids, in transports and recently in Vancouver they have been banned from smoking outside on the boardwalk. There are anti-smoking ads on TV, in schools, newspapers. They even have shirtless speakers traveling to high schools scaring kids with their cancer scars. Smoking has been demonized and there are already countless methods and support groups to help smokers quit. If smokers can afford cigarettes they can afford their stop smoking aids. The last thing this government needs is another unnecessary costly program to help people who have the resources to help themselves. The only argument for this would be that it costs the health care system money to treat smoking related illnesses. So the real question should be "Should we have public health care"?