Along with the legal precedent that everyone must purchase health insurance by force of law, comes the avalanche of precedent-setting issues that are already becoming the new normal...i.e., the idea that nearly every aspect of everyone's personal life is now a "public health issue".
Tobacco use is considered a "disorder" medically, and is listed as such in the medical record of many smokers. But smokers can take comfort in knowing that they are really not being singled out...they are just on the tip of the iceberg. In the years to come, the dominoes will fall rapidly. Everything will be weighed based on some risk assessment created by corporate/government beauracrats...everything you eat and drink, all of your activities and hobbies, even driving an automobile will eventually be illegal. Driverless, computer controlled cars are already here.
“In our age there is no such thing as ‘keeping out of politics.’ All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia.” -- George Orwell
