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Others legalize more things because the government telling people not to do things that mostly effect themselves isn't a good thing and then this... Like i get that not smoking is good, i hate smokers and smoke, but its their choice.
Just like itβs your choice to pay more taxes to support a healthcare system coping with a society full of downtrodden sickly nicotine addicted smokers.
We have decided that you cant own an automatic weapon because the risk to yourself and cost to society is too great. By the same logic we should ban smoking, whose cost to society, in practice, is far far greater.
So you're saying we should regulate sugar and alcohol next, yeah? I'm on board.
alcohol and sugar are already regulated to various degrees. you need to be a certain age for alcohol. you wont get served if you're shitfaced. The cost itself is often prohibitive. Some countries have sugary drink taxes, and/or don't allow them to be sold in school cafeterias
You're so right, we should double the drinking age and raise costs 1000%. And the sugar should have a 1000% tax.
Good thinking. this will prevent people who already make poor decisions because their brain isn't developed yet from consuming alcohol and making the problem worse. Drunk driving being a hobby is fucking disgraceful.
And sugar wont be is ALL of our food!
Win-win!
Uh... The guns are illegal because you shoot others, thats the purpose of a gun.
And if we go by your standards sugar should be illigal, caffeine should be illegal, being fat should be illegal, not doing daily workout for health should be punishable, having mental illness would be illegal and so on.
Your argument is idiotic.
Most smokers are more healthy than the average fat person. Being fat is worse than smoking, and yet being fat isn't banned shure they cost the health insurance money, but so does everyone else that isn't living a perfectly healthy lifestyle...
Choice is good but only if you're the one smoking then?
What?
The correct path is to disallow the sale of the stuff. Its like with weed. You should let people grow it, but when you start allowing the sale, you will get big shitty corporations trying to make it as addictive as possible.