Smoking and Soda Pop

[zenmaster]

Uhm, are we missing the obvious here?
Which is: if one smokes, the smoke affects others around him/her.
If one drinks soda with excess amounts of sugar, it is personal catalyst.

In general due to are already weakened body state here, any health degradation necessarily affects others. So it's both personal and collective catalyst. In fact, the sugar toxicity could very well be the larger imposition or constraint on others. For example, what we might think of as mild disabilities related to mental-processing impairments, mood disorders, attitude, and the physical ailments which increase dependency, demand compensation, and decrease freedom are a very large part of interpersonal and collective catalyst here.