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I'm a smoker. when your first reaction is to cough and shoot your eyeballs across the room, it's probably not good for you. i pay a premium on my life insurance for that. i'm going to die sooner than i should. i save the system money. it's my right to smoke a legal fda-approved product. it's my right to drink soda and eat fatty foods. it's my right to gamble. it's my right. it's my life. if we start to take away the individual's ownership of their own lives, what does the government think they have the right to regulate? >> you guys are paranoid. this is consumer protectionism. that's all this...