Passive v Active
The difference with smoking and all your other examples is that you can passively inhale smoke and that inhaling second hand smoke causes cancer. The other example like transfat, hot coffee being splilled and drinking is all doing this to yourself not someone else doing it to you.
Lastly I am a firm believer in taking responsibilites for your own actions. My wife slipped and fell on a sidewalk that had some uncleared snow 18 years ago at our condo complex and hurt her knee. Hasn't been the same since. We could have brought a suit but we didn't because she saw the snow walked on it knowing it could be slippery and fell. This was not the fault of the person who didn't clear the snow well enough.
The smoking government intervention would be the only one I support.
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