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...rule forbidding interracial dating. There is a rarely acknowledged random element in what becomes a big news story and what does not. But moral outrage ought to aspire, at least, to some kind of consistency. The tendency in Washington is the opposite: a new moral norm (don't smoke marijuana; pay your nanny's Social Security tax; don't get misty-eyed about segregation) sweeps into town like a hurricane, knocks a couple of people down, then sweeps out and is forgotten...
Boston is participating in an important state- and nation-wide effort to curb smoking in public places. Over 70 other cities and towns across Massachusetts already have strict anti-smoking legislation, and New York is expected to impose even stricter restrictions than Boston at a city council meeting on Wednesday. If all U.S. workplaces became smoke-free, according to a study published in Tobacco Control, over 175,000 smokers would quit and over 10 billion fewer cigarettes would be consumed every year...
...Staff is right in applauding the ban on smoking in Boston’s eating establishments, a move which will surely have beneficial affects on the employees of the city’s thousands of restaurants, bars and nightclubs who have the same right as any other worker to a smoke-free workplace...
...clever, similar, but currently unfulfilling argument used to justify high taxes on cigarettes is that smokers will have greater incentive to quit if their habit costs them more money, and since they’ll be better off cigarette-free in the long run, a tax discouraging smoking actually makes smokers happier. This argument also relies on the government-knows-best assumption, along with the idea that since smoking is addictive and people get hooked when they are young, they never make a conscious rational decision to smoke. While some individuals might be happier as tax-induced former smokers, second...
While there are negative health consequences imposed on non-smokers by second-hand smoke, taxing cigarettes so that smokers are punished for smoking even in the privacy of their own home is not a focused solution. Instead, banning smoking in public places more narrowly eliminates second-hand smoke problems without unduly restricting personal freedom...