Hey, Sunshine, 20 per cent of your fellow students chose not to smoke. And I choose not to consume alcohol (maybe once a year at a wedding where you have to toast the bride). I am just hoping you will apply the same principles to banning of alcohol as you do toward tobacco.

I am impressed with your statistics. I would like to point out, though, that had tobacco been banned, that would not translate into all those people dying a natural death of plain old age (no pathology - just the end of life as originally designated by our Creator). There are millions of people languishing in homes and hospitals in horrid shape with neither smoke nor drink. There are too many things that can go wrong, no matter how clean you try to live. How about tracking down those 20% of your mates who never took up smoking?

People have physical/emotional cravings that will NOT go away by the banning of drugs, alcohol & tobacco - that is my point. It is understandable that you, having suffered so much, would want to re-tool the world so that others would not suffer in the precise way you did. But they will find something to soothe themselves. I would suggest it might be worse than tobacco.

Thanks for taking the trouble to reply to my viewpoint. It is appreciated to not be ignored, even in the negation of one's opinions.