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(In sffnet, we're talking about smoking and motorcycle helmets and such -- personal lifestyle decisions that have public health consequences that translate into tax dollars from others who haven't made such decisions . . . )

I didn't know that about California, Karen. When Florida repealed their motorcycle helmet law some ten years ago, there was some graveyard humor about it -- "what do you call a biker without a helmet?" "A transplant donor."

In fact, an often-repeated rationale against hel...