29-12-2022, 01:19 PM
We don't allow people to shit in the streets, they do on some countries. We don't allow people to catch and eat our wildlife, they do in some countries. Or to buy and sell child brides or small boys... Etc etc etc...
So while my post was slightly in jest I think the point is, some habits tolerated elsewhere are not necessarily transferable. We know smoking kills. We know it is a pernicious habit supported by companies who seek to exploit their customers with one and only one aim in mind - profit.
We should not be conspiring with those companies to either profit ourselves - though extortionate taxation - or through quietly consenting to that continued exploitation by not making smoking or vaping, or another man made invention that circumvents common sense totally and completely illegal.
If we are determined to be smokefree, let us be more honest about it. Set a date and make the habit and all it involves illegal from that date. To do otherwise is simply whitewashing...
So while my post was slightly in jest I think the point is, some habits tolerated elsewhere are not necessarily transferable. We know smoking kills. We know it is a pernicious habit supported by companies who seek to exploit their customers with one and only one aim in mind - profit.
We should not be conspiring with those companies to either profit ourselves - though extortionate taxation - or through quietly consenting to that continued exploitation by not making smoking or vaping, or another man made invention that circumvents common sense totally and completely illegal.
If we are determined to be smokefree, let us be more honest about it. Set a date and make the habit and all it involves illegal from that date. To do otherwise is simply whitewashing...