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Obesity does too. You are consuming sometimes twice as many calories as what is needed to survive. You put strain on medical facilities as well, and increase pooled costs of healthcare. Same social ills a smoker puts on you. Second hand smoke isn't really a thing anymore with indoor smoking bans.

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People that consume more are carbon sinks...

How ludicrous is this argument going to get?

Consuming more makes you a carbon sink? Quite the opposite.

Yeah - have a wee think about what a sink is bud.

Someone being obese doesn't impact my health directly. Second hand smoke impacts the kids/family of smokers. Second hand smoke impacts everyone walking past the front of an office building.

I don't actually know the math behind it but I would imagine that just smoking outside eliminates almost all the second hand smoke risk. The air outside is really really big, and the smoke is pretty small. Surely most of it misses you, even if you can smell it.

Sure it does. Hospital is more busy than it needs to be and service therefore is diminished or you pay more for the same.

Also they overflow into your seat when you're on a plane flight. And the smell.

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