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Comment author: crap 23 December 2012 03:25:52PM 4 points [-]

It would create a kooky outgroup faction, the Violent Anti-Smokers, that people would be afraid to be associated with, so people would become uncomfortable with being too vocally anti-smoking lest they be mistaken for one of Them.

Exactly. It already happened to Germany with precisely this result. (You know who else was against smoking? Hitler, that's who!)

Comment author: NancyLebovitz 23 December 2012 08:32:55PM 4 points [-]