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It all started when the wise men brought the baby Jesus some incense as a gift, worthy of the king of Kings. I never found out what a baby would use that for, I would have brought him a toy or something like that. None the less churches around the western world started to use it along with candles.
But what has all the middle age stuff got to do with modern cigarettes?
So... are you saying the Wise Men were unwise that Christmas day?
(watch out, that was a trap to get you into trouble with the rightwing).
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The point is that the "right" to smoke in public is no different than the "right" to burn incense in public, barring the fact that one causes cancer and is addictive of course.
If you hope to win the argument that smoking in public should be legal then you also need to win the argument that everyone burning incense in public should be legal.
Try going to a bar that allows smoking and light up a cone of musk incense. Let's see how far you get with that.
There is a line where the individual choice of one person infringes on the individual choice of another person. Smoking clearly crosses that line, as does burning incense. The line isn't being moved with all these new laws. Smokers are just being shoved back on to their side of it.