Addictions

The U.S. government seems to be doing everything in it's power to force a stop to tobacco addiction. Otherwise it appears they're practically ignoring various other addictive sources.

Alcohol is freely bought and abused with the result that automobiles driven by drunk drivers maim and murder innocent victims in alarming numbers. Cars might actually be America's number one unintentional 'weapon'.

Internet porn is so easily accessible that never in recorded history have children had such fast access to what was once called 'smut'. Numerous websites are populated with preteens and teenagers blogging about porn and exchanging it as freely as if they were passing a note in class. Studies haven't even been set-up yet to learn of the long-term effects, and the scars which will carry into adulthood.

Truth in marketing is only but loosely enforced, and almost impossible to enforce on websites that sell from foreign locations. Easily addictive buyers are quickly spending beyond what they intended, only to pay the price down the road.

Our addictive nature is taken advantage of by far more than just the tobacco industry. At every turn we run into businesses, both small and large, just waiting for us to become addicted to what they have to offer!

(Here's my rebellious nature at work)
I am not, and have never been a smoker! But I am so alarmed by the rapid enforcement against smoking that whenever I enter a restaurant and am greeted by the seating hostess, I tell her that I would like a table for two... in the SMOKING AREA!! Her response is "I'm sorry sir. We don't have a smoking section." Yep. I knew it already. The government has gotten rid of this once-standard part of dining out... now they need to work on the above-mentioned areas of societal harm... if protecting us from harmful addictions is really what their true aim is!
Or don't they care?
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