Brady Kelly wrote:
It will matter when you get national health care - then the government has to pay medical costs of smokers.
One of the main reasons governments want to control health care is, well, control. Slowly but surely, the people will be reined in, but it wont end. It will continue to be incremented until we are nothing more than slaves, and it wont even stop there. Genetic engineering and biotech will be used to make an entirely new species of borg like drones 50-100 years from now. It will be done slowly to squeeze out the rebels and fighters so they can be dealt with more easily. People will be propagandized incrementally into a state where they demand to be slaves.
"The task of saving the earth's environment must and will become the central organizing principle of the post-Cold War world." Senator Al Gore Putting People First 1992 ------ "The sacrifice of personal existence is necessary to secure the preservation of the species." Adolph Hitler Mein Kampf 1923 ------ If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever." O'Brien to Winston George Orwell 1984 1949