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Originally posted by TexLex
I think your argument that overweight people should be banned from public viewing because smokers aren't permitted to pollute the insides of public buildings and other people's lungs is simply brilliant.
-TL 
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I wasn't trying to make such a literal connection but, okay. The tobacco litigation and much of the anti-smoking campaign is based on the health costs associated with smoking (which does include non-smokers). The states put forth the idea that they were incurring extra healthcare costs because of diseases caused by smoking. Obesity causes numerous health problems but no states have seen fit to hike up taxes on fatty foods or initate tobacco-esque lawsuits against Frito-Lay. People also argue that being around a smoker has an impact on their own health. Being forced to eat near a fatty repulses me and so I should not be subjected to it. If you say "then don't go to that restaurant or eat at home or something" I say the same should go for people who do not want to be around smokers (and the employees can choose to work in a place tha allows smoking or not although I will note that they probably get more lung damage sitting in traffic on the way to work than they do serving some smokers).
I can quit smoking today but you will still be a fatty.
