Everyone dies.
How do you know? Maybe many of us will live eternally in fire -- especially people who take their own lives?
No. Cheeseburgers, fries and soda shorten the lives of people too, but I'm not for banning them either.
I actually don't see many people smoking anymore... of course here in California you can barely smoke in your own house.
I will admit, I don't miss the smell of cig smoke,, and I use to be a smoker,, Long long ago..
If you ban cigarettes just to save lives, Then you would have to ban the automobile, Booze, swimming pools,, etc.. etc.. etc...
djl
I'm not a smoker. But if you can ban cigarettes then what is to stop the banning of everything else that some group doesn't like?
Sugar, caffeine, and salt maybe?
How about we lock up people who don't meet certain weight and health requirements and force them into hard physical exercise camps?
We could make fat people pick all of the fruit once Donald Trump rounds up the 11 million immigrants and ships them out on box cars.
This opens all sorts of doors.
Maybe we could make religious material of all kinds be illegal.
Or maybe we should ban all travel by vehicle.
Maybe we should mind our own fekking business and leave people alone...
I'm not a smoker. But if you can ban cigarettes then what is to stop the banning of everything else that some group doesn't like?
Tobacco products shorten the lives of 480,000 people a year in USA alone. On average a smoker loses 10 -- 15 years of life. About 264 billion cigarettes and 12.4 billion large cigars are sold yearly in USA.
Tobacco is illegal in Bhutan. In Russia, sale of tobacco was punished severely during the years 1550 -- 1700.
Well, no, but i think people should be allowed to smoke crack. Adults should be able to choose to refrain from smoking things like crack and cigarettes, and if they don't, the law won't prevent them from doing so anyway.
That is where I disagree 100%. Not all adults are mature.
People are not, for the VAST MAJORITY... addicted to burgers.
That's why we have laws that directly address bad behavior, whether under the influence of something or not.
But US has few laws to help people with disability or to keep mentally ill people from harming themselves.
Because no laws against such a thing are possible, hence we have laws against the act itself, with a few irrational exceptions.
Scandinavia gives these people huge amount of free help -- they have much much lower crime rate and more humane justice system then USA.
It's not free.
Scandinavia does have taxes -- higher then USA -- but it is money well spent.
That is where I disagree 100%. Not all adults are mature.
That's your view.
They care about every human who needs help -- even those who are not that self sufficient.
Clearly you have no concept of doing things to help other people without putting the lethal force of government behind it.
Sadly people are unlikely to donate much to charity.
Scandinavia has income tax about 60%.
I know. The government takes most of your money by force. You think that's moral.
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