• @[email protected]
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    281 year ago

    First and foremost, people have the right to slowly kill themselves with cigarettes as long as it isn’t harming innocent bystanders.

    Arguably more importantly, the proposed ban is worryingly dystopian.

    Finally, agreeing with anything Sunak does is unforgivable. And in this case would reflect neo-liberal sympathies.

    • Alto
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      as long as it isn’t harming innocent bystanders.

      Considering that’s exactly what second hand smoke does, I really don’t see what point you’re trying to make.

      • @[email protected]
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        101 year ago

        Except it doesn’t, less than 9% of the population in the USA uses tobacco in any form, including in that group is past smokers and vapers so it’s probably around 7% or less. Continually attacking a vice that’s basically done is just virtue signaling bullshit. Alcoholism has skyrocketed and kills way more people a year, and obesity is now our number one killer by miles. No one is dying from second hand smoke…you sitting in traffic is doing way more damage to your body than getting a random breeze of smoke from someone outside.

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      361 year ago

      Except smokers always insist on slowly murdering everyone around them and littering everything in their path. If you want to smoke in a hermetically sealed room and not get close to me for at least 6 hours after, fine by me.

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        131 year ago

        I mean, I understand that it smells really bad to non smokers. On the other hand, statements like this seem so ridiculously over the top that it makes me question you as a person.

        We live in car country - assuming you are German as well -, with a wide variety of unhealthy crap that you have to inhale on a daily basis. Smog, exhaust fumes, half the food we can buy is unhealthy.

        Honestly I don’t understand how people can be so worked up about smokers in that context. Is it because those are people you can bitch at and boss around, instead of nebulous corps and governments who ignore your calls for climate action and environment protection?

        Otherwise it makes no sense. Smokers are already segregated away from non smokers nowadays, what about their freedom to live (or die) as they want? Your freedom not to smell unpleasant things doesn’t trump that. Me farting in your vicinity doesn’t constitute harm to your individual rights.

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          171 year ago

          Your freedom ends where mine begins. You are free to kill yourself, but not to blow cancerous substances on top of me - and yes, that should include cars.

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            I generally agree, just that it seems cheap to pile on smokers like they are some sort of lepers. Also you are free to go somewhere else when around a smoker. Their habit doesn’t make them second class citizens, or should I say your freedom ends where theirs begins?

            If we want clean air we have to start with the actual polluters, not the easy pickings who are just random people. That’s like, obsessively worrying about your personal climate impact when the vast, vast majority of climate change is caused by just a handful of corporations.

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              111 year ago

              Also you are free to go somewhere else when around a smoker.

              Their children aren’t.

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        71 year ago

        Rolling my eyes at “slowly murdering everyone around them”. Why do people think they’re inhaling a non negligible amount of smoke outdoors? It barely registers compared to traffic fumes. Stop with the over exaggerating pseudo scientific moralising.

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      331 year ago

      First and foremost, people have the right to slowly kill themselves with cigarettes as long as it isn’t harming innocent bystanders.

      That’s the thing with smoking though, second hand smoke is a big problem, especially for vulnerable people

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        61 year ago

        Indoors maybe. People really have a warped idea of how much smoke they’re inhaling in outdoor scenarios, unless they’re literally blowing it in your face from centimetres away it’s not doing anything.

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          I’m surprised they can still walk around outside, when there are literally cars everywhere. Those are killing way more people on ‘second hand’ exposure than tobacco.

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          You may not know it because you’re a smoker (smokers’ noses are completely and irreparably fucked), but normal people can tell a cigarette was lit in a 10 meter radius, even on a windy day.

          • @[email protected]
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            21 year ago

            Hell, I can still smell smoke strongly enough to make me breath lightly because of how bad it smells even if the smoker is gone. That shit lingers.

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              11 year ago

              We’re talking about the outdoors. That shit dissipates rapidly following an inverse square law.

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            I’m not a smoker.

            There is a difference between smelling and inhaling enough smoke to do any sort of real damage.

            The fact you think they’re exactly the same thing is exactly the point.

            I bet you think you can get high from sitting next to a weed smoker as well.

            Let’s be honest, people just hate smoking and want to get rid of it.

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              21 year ago

              Let’s be honest, people just hate smoking and want to get rid of it.

              See, you get it afterall!

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      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.

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        161 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

        • @[email protected]
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          151 year ago

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

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            71 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.

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          41 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!?

          • @[email protected]
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            31 year ago

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

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              21 year ago

              Are people smoking less weed now it’s legal in many US states?

              Where do you think tax free cigarettes are going to come from?

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                21 year ago

                They are either domestic bootlegs or imports. If cigarettes were actually fully banned, organized crime groups would begin mass cigarette smuggling and manufacturing operations. Sounds ridiculous, but it’s true