It's not unrelated, the product is just different. If we had started this with a hypothetical product X, and had talked about the dangers of this product, and then asked if it should be banned - we would have ended up banning cars instead of smoking.
There's a lot of obnoxious effects of other people's driving that are not solely confined to themselves either. Pretty fuckin' annoying too. I'd bet that what comes out of a car's exhaust pipe is probably worse for you than what comes out of someone else's cigarette.
Playing the addict card I see. Ever heard of rational addiction? I'd imagine that plenty smokers (not all) make rational calculations about their addictive choice.
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