Boston lawmakers are trying to create a ban on tobacco sales on all campuses. Some colleges are supporting it, trying to get all high and mighty—and they’re stupid.

They forget that this country has grown into what it was because of tobacco. Now I’m not applauding their methods (slavery), but it must be acknowledged that tobacco is like the baby that used to be all cute and everybody loved it. Everybody wanted to play with the baby and coddle it, give it presents and cute pictures of said baby, posing against some clichéd sky-blue background at Kmart or something.

Then that baby gets a little older, he gets a little gangly, maybe develops some acne and f*cks up a little bit. Maybe he flunks bio or gets caught having a party when his parents are out. The used-to-be cute baby that everyone wanted a part of is now that black sheep of the family that nobody wants to talk about anymore.

That’s what tobacco has become. The ugly, zit-ridden f*ck up, that nobody wants to get in the secret santa.

Now, I make no claims that tobacco is healthy, but neither are a lot of things, like caffeine, sugar, trans-fat—the list goes on. Just because they’re not healthy, it doesn’t mean that they’re going to stop selling them. This government has become obsessed with regulation—to the point that we’re no longer able to practice our right to capitalism aka “Free Trade.”

The thing about it is, we’re in Boston. It’s not like there aren’t a million other convenience stores that sell cigarettes. If people really want to get them, and they will, they’ll just have to walk a little further.

If I were in anyway invested in the Campus Convenience organization (BU’s convenience stores), I would be pissed because cigarette sales have to constitute a large percent of their sales. Now they’re all going to be lost to local businesses, so who knows, maybe it will be a good thing for local businesses and take away from the machine that is Boston University.