British American Tobacco are to be congratulated for their fightback against the self righteous individual rights violators pushing for plain packing of cigarettes.
Not only are individual's rights to pursue their own happiness being violated, but BAT's intellectual property rights are threatened to be stripped away.
The simple fact is smoking is a conscious decision by those undertaking it. I am not in a position to tell them what to smoke in exactly the same way as I'm not prepared to be told what to eat.
I am a free individual who should be allowed to fill my lungs with cancer causing smoke or my stomach with heart disease inducing burgers.
And BAT should be allowed to advertise and sell their product to me, including utilising their intellectual property.
To be blunt, I don't give a shit about Johnny down the road killing himself with cigarettes. It is his right to do what he likes with his body just as it is my right to do to mine what I like.
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