It's starting again ...

Nico-Nazis have sucessfully banned smoking from just about everywhere, jacked up the price to well beyond the costs and have reduced the ability of stores to sell a legal product to adults.

(Yes, Nico-Nazis is an appropriate term - see here.)

Now it's alcohols turn. Pretty soon you won't be able to buy a drink in a bar without paying $20 for a pint of beer (which cannot have any point of sale advertising or product display) and you won't be allowed to have alcohol on a friday night in workplaces.

Of course, the solution is not to restrict tobacco and alcohol, but to make people pay for the choices they make. If you want to smoke or if binge-drinking is your thing, private health insurance costs would make you think twice.

Disclaimer: I don't smoke and I'm a moderate drinker.