Hello, I realize that you must be reeling due to my long absence from this blog, but the life of an all-knowing individual is not easy.  Regardless, I wish to shed light upon you simple individuals and grace you with yet more useful knowledge.  When you look around, there are many people in this world who smoke cigarettes.  Young and old, black and white, male and female, everybody does it (because it's the cool thing to do!).  Regardless, governments from many states are legislating against the age old art of cigarette smoking with ever increasing taxes and continued crusades to have them banned from pretty much all public spaces.  Seeing as the government exists to defend the against the rule of the enraged mob, it is easy to conclude that the government does not view smokers as people.

The first proof that smokers are not people in the eyes of the government is the government denies them rights to spaces that they pay for.  Public spaces mean that everyone is entitled to use of said space for one reason or another because everyone in a given city pays for said space.  Smokers, despite the fact that they help pay for said space, are often denied access to said places simply because they're smokers.  I suppose if the government makes smokers out to be genetic freaks, then we SHOULD shun them until they give up their freakish ways and rejoin the human race.

The second proof that smokers are not people is the government taxes them directly.  I strangely remember things such as the "Tea Tax" and the "Stamp Act" as things the Founding Fathers fought against in the Revolution.  Now, since smokers aren't people, we place direct taxes upon cigarettes (up to $2 in some states) in an effort to get these freaks to rejoin the human race.

In conclusion, the government shows its resolve to defend the rights of all people by destroying the rights of smokers (who are not people anyway).  Indeed, it could be argued that state governments spend more time crusading against tobacco freaks than improving schools and fighting crime.  So next time you see a smoker, treat him like a Jew in Nazi Germany...  You'll be doing him a favor.  Just be sure not to inhale when you're around him, they say just catching a whiff of cigarette smoke is totally lethal!  So join the crusade against the inferior smoker race because this country was founded upon the ideals of mob rule based upon the junk opinions of extremely bias scientists.