&gt; We didn&#x27;t make sure to check each and every box, and think up contingencies for each and every situation that could ever happen before we allowed alcohol and cigarettes to be sold to the general populous <i>[sic]</i>.<p>Heck, we didn&#x27;t originally <i>allow</i> alcohol and cigarettes to be sold: they just <i>were</i>. In the state of nature, any free man is free to sell whatever he wants to any other free man. Is that really such a bad situation? Why do people expend so much effort in regulating and outlawing?