I used to smoke. Today is day seven without a cigarette for me. I quit ONLY because I wanted to, after ten years of smoking. I have seen every single ad campaign, every nasty little ad on Canadian cigarette packages, read bunches of sad and horrible stories of people dying from cigarette usage, and have even met someone very special whose grandparents died of lung cancer due to tobacco use. But I would not stop. Why? Because I did not want to. If I would have died of some horrible self induced cigarette related illness, then it would have been my own fault, no one else's. However, that being said, I would rather make my own decisions as to what I'm going to do with my own body than let a government do it for me.

About the other things, such as drug abuse and drinking and suicide... there is absolutely nothing anyone can do short of trying to educate people as to why these things are not good. But ultimately, one has to decide for oneself.