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Republican Texas Senator Ted Cruz took to CNBC Thursday morning to promote an analogy between people refusing to get the coronavirus vaccine and smokers, claiming that there should be no mandates on people getting the inoculation.
“For adults, you’re entitled to make decisions,” Cruz asserts. “Ya know what, smokers, when they light up a cigarette, they’re increasing their chances that they’re going to get lung cancer. That may not be a wise decision to do, but in America, we give people the freedom to make decisions about their own health, even if we don’t approve of the decisions they make.”
Also in America: smokers, who are addicted to the nicotine in cigarettes, are banned from smoking indoors. They pay higher rates for health and life insurance. They pay taxes that go to helping people adversely affected by tobacco use. They’re barred from smoking on airplanes. And the federal government mandates that the producers of tobacco products label their products as deadly.
Oh, and let’s not forget the decades where tobacco companies lied to the public about the health risks of tobacco.