Certainly you are not equating "Legality with Right or Correct" "smoking is not healthy but is not illegal is a philosophy is fraught with dangerous thinking. Verbally abusing your children or your with is not "illegal" but certainly is not "right" in any moral sense. I hope you don't live your life by the letter of the law and ignore the moral high ground. More people should define their behavior with "a good person is one who does the right thing even when no one is looking".
I take issue that "everyone in business is likely to be affiliated with some industry that kills people". Perhaps if you link steel manufacturers with automobiles, automobiles with fatal accidents, you could say that steel manufacturing "kills people". The link between cigarettes and lung cancer is no stretch of the imagination, cause-effect. Certainly there are other industries putting people in their graves but we should be attacking them as well; not excusing one because it is one of many. That logic is similar to those who cheat on their taxes and say "well, other people are doing it 'but no one seems to care much about that'"
Far more are killed by smoking. 3,000 per day in the USA alone, 4,000,000 per year in America. The death certificates may state "heart attack", "stroke", "lung cancer", but the cause is tobacco.
By this logic Siri also is also opposed to spanish speakers.
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