. "Law follows changes in social attitudes, it doesn't lead them".
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Profoundly disagree, Jack. In a law-abiding society, that's exactly what it does. See my post 0151 pm yesterday on the effects of our non-smoking laws on public acceptance of the necessity for restriction on tobacco use, and its social effects. The law has changed smoking from something that everybody did [in my youth it was not exactly rude not to smoke, but certainly regarded as a little bit eccentric] to something for which those who can't kick it are perpetually a bit defiantly apologetic.

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