It's not the job of government. I don't know where you got that idea. The laws governing health and safety are to prevent lawsuits and the resultant payouts, not to save lives Insurance companies hedge their bets and actuaries are the oddsmakers. "Theirs is not to reason why, theirs is but to do and die." as Tennyson poetically wrote regarding the Crimean War in the 1850's Anyone who has been to a dispensary or VA hospital knows