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LETTER: Smoking is a vice?  

I noticed Ron Jenkins, in his article in Sunday's paper, referenced smoking as a "vice."

Upon consulting my Webster's Dictionary, I find vice to be all of the following:

1. An immoral or evil habit to practice. 2. Immoral conduct/depraved behavior. . . .

If one does not approve of smoking, does that give them the right to label one who smokes as "committing a vice?" I am not a smoker, but will defend the right to smoke for those who do, and too, I don't understand the logic behind trying to raise the cigarette tax to a point so high it forces smokers to quit when you are counting on the tax money to help fund state government.

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