• @mriormro@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    They’re literally cancer sticks…

    I guess we should allow people to sell antifreeze as both an industrial chemical and a soft drink. Arguably, people have the right to quickly and painfully kill themselves as well.

    • @000999@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      -91 year ago

      Humans have been smoking tobacco for thousands of years. Banning it will only allow the black market to swell to an unimaginable size

      • @mriormro@lemmy.world
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        81 year ago

        These are cigarettes. Engineered to be as addictive as possible. We aren’t talking about hand rolled stogies here

        • @SupraMario@lemmy.world
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          61 year ago

          They absolutely are talking about any form of tobacco…hell track and trace in the EU has effectively destroyed the nasal snuff industry in Germany…a form of tobacco that has no deaths on its hands… literally. This is just ignorance being used in the name of “think of the children” hell that’s one of the main things everyone keeps bringing up in this thread.

          Meanwhile, smoking has been on a sharp decline for decades, is no longer a mass killer…while obesity is and alcoholism has grown 10 fold, so much so that they created a new label called social drinkers because it would put a massive amount of the population into alcoholic territory.

        • @000999@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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          31 year ago

          Not necessarily. People could actually start smoking more because tax free cigarettes are astronomically cheaper

      • @Sir_Kevin@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        -31 year ago

        By that logic we should continue slavery. Aren’t you worried someone’s going to purchase one of your children on the black market!?