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There is a nonzero population of people, all across the planet, across all cultures, that just don't like being told they cannot do something.
You could tell them that smoking is very, very bad for you, and they'll say "wow, no one should do that," and then you tell them that they cannot smoke, and they'll say "the fuck I can't!"
But in this case, it was telling cancer-stick merchants that they can't kill people, and then their victims rushed to their defense.
Yes, because those people don't like being told what they can't do. The thing they can't do, in this case, is buy cigarettes.
So what? If they were old enough to buy fags before the ban they could still do so. They argue that their children have a right to lung cancer.
They are also told to wear a seatbelt and don’t rail against that.
Some people do, actually. Look, I'm not trying to argue their position for them, I'm not one of those people.