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Completely concur with your observation, except your analogy with gay people (something beyond one's power of choice) is somewhat uncalled for.

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But in both cases one can choose to let it be known or not. You can choose to share that you smoke or not, and you can choose to share that you're gay or not. It's that choice to share information or not that I'm talking about.

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