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See...I don't get this big push to stamp out smoking. Some people complain about health costs, but I pay my taxes just like everyone else. And it certainly can't cost any more than unrelated heart disease, strokes, alzheimers, cancer, etc. etc. etc. I have been to Europe...spent two and a half weeks in Germany/Switzerland/Poland. You're right...they do live differently. They're happier. Much happier. They're more polite and helpful. As for the unemployment rate...I really wouldn't know. Then again, it's got nothing to do with smoking. So...moving on. I'm not sure if you're drawing a correlation between smoking and the riots in France...but what France does is their own business. Besides, that riot was largely the result of bitchy youth groups pissed at the way they were being treated by cops. Muslims are now making a huge deal about characatures of Muhammed printed in Finnish newspapers (then reprinted elsewhere), but smoking is rare in middle eastern countries. Would you like to draw the same comparison there as well? As much as you'd like to chide me for not throwing facts around like a monkey flings his own shit, I sure don't see you popping out any gems of knowledge. And I know why. This is, more or less, a matter of opinion. The beauty of opinions is that they're different from facts...hence the different words. I know you want to shove it down my throat that what I do will kill everyone everywhere...but I know better, so I stopped listening.