Smokers are unfairly taxed: cigarette taxes, smoking bans, and smoke-hazed bars

One host, identifying himself as a smoker, argues smokers are unfairly taxed while drinkers get away with everything, questioning why Twinkies and French fries escape the moral targeting. The crew debates smoking bans in restaurants and bars — one host holds that owners, not government, should decide, and mourns the neon-and-haze mystique of seedy bars now revealed as ugly dives — and attacks lumped-together health statistics that blame single causes.