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is a the targeting of the other's excessive and risky enjoyment, embodied in the act of 'irresponsibly' lighting a cigarette and inhaling deeply with an unabashed pleasure.

This is the case even with the growing prohibition of smoking. First, all offices were declared 'smoke-free,' then flights, then restaurants, then airports, then bars, then private clubs, then, in some campuses, 50 yards around the entrances to the buildings, then in a unique case of pedagogical censorship, reminding us of the famous Stalinist practice of retouching the photos of nomenklatura the US Postal Service removed the cigarette from the stamps with the photo-portrait of blues guitarist Robert Johnson and of Jackson Pollock. These prohibitions target the other's excessive and risky enjoyment, embodied in the act of 'irresponsibly' lighting a cigarette and inhaling deeply with an unabashed pleasure (in contrast to Clintonite yuppies who do it without inhaling, or who have sex without actual penetration, or food without fat) indeed, as Lacan put it, after God is dead, nothing is anymore permitted. (87)

is an attempted cure that makes matters worse for both the addict and the rest of us.

Prohibition is an attempted cure that makes matters worse for both the addict and the rest of us. Milton Friedman

is like making water run uphill... it's against nature.

Making prohibition work is like making water run uphill... it's against nature. Milton Friedman

is not just a binary relationship with the permitted, but formed as what is considered to be an average on the one hand, and, on the other, a bandwidth of the acceptable that must not be exceeded.

Finally, third, instead of a binary division between the permitted and the prohibited, one establishes an average considered as optimal on the one hand, and, on the other, a bandwidth of the acceptable that must not be exceeded (Foucault 1978/2008 : 20)

One role of prohibition is in making the drug market more lucrative. Milton Friedman

is, more often than not, counterproductive. Laws to suppress tend to strengthen what they would prohibit.

Laws to suppress tend to strengthen what they would prohibit. Frank Herbert

is wrongheaded, for there is a charm about the forbidden that makes it unspeakably desirable.

There is a charm about the forbidden that makes it unspeakably desirable. Mark Twain

 strikes a blow at the very principles upon which our government was founded.

Prohibition... goes beyond the bounds of reason in that it attempts to control a man's appetite by legislation and makes a crime out of things that are not crimes... A prohibition law strikes a blow at the very principles upon which our government was founded.

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