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Originally Posted by SAMIAM
"...I'm afraid we can expect more intrusions. Smoking ban, lake speed limits, helmet laws and who knows what else...?"
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As to motorcyclists, skydivers, snowmobilers—or even boaters—I'm not too stressed by what individuals do to themselves; however, one county showed a
four-fold increase in
helmetless fatalities after lifting the law requiring helmets.
At ten years old, I used to buy Old Gold cigarettes (filtered) for my grandmother at Melvin Village's only store—next to the Melvin River.
At 15, there was peer pressure
in favor of smokers: even my "progressive" Warwick, Rhode Island high school had a special smoking room built next to the cafeteria. You weren't "cool" unless you were in that room—and it was crowded!
At 20, I flew on commercial airlines when smoking cigarettes and cigars was allowed. (It wasn't until 1990 that a ban was put on smoking on commercial carriers in aircraft and buses. Tobacco ads were banned from most media, and the under-aged couldn't buy smokes.)
At 25 years, I could carry a handgun on board a commercial aircraft legally.
I don't see what's being missed here.