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Smoking is a bad analogy, though, for a number of reasons.
1. No amount of smoke is required for health. Salt IS required by the body.
2. The smoking in question is done by the customer, NOT the business. The analogy to salt would require that we talk about customers being allowed to bring and use their own salt.
3. Having seasoned food does not season someone else's food nearby. If I eat a burger, and you, concerned about salt just get a coke, my salted burger doesn't make your coke salty. Smoke does in fact leave your cigg, and come into MY lungs if I sit nearby.
So smoking is a terribly analogy.
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It wasn't a terrible analogy, you just clearly missed the context in which I was using it, which is personal freedom and the freedom of businesses to choose how to operate.
But okay, I'll play devil's advocate and respond to at least your first point.
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1. No amount of smoke is required for health. Salt IS required by the body.
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You know that iron is required by the body? Ever hear of a condition called hemochromatosis? That means you have too much. Now should vitamin makers be allowed to put excessive amounts of iron in their supplements, or should the FDA regulate them?