Cigaretes: should we ban that stuff or not ?

[KAYNE]

I WOULD SAY YES, WE SHOULD BAN THEM BUT THAT WOULD BE PUTTING LOTS OF PEOPLE OUT OF JOBS AND BILLIONS OF DOLLARS WOULD BE LOST EVERY YEAR. ESSENTIALLY, IT WOULD ACTUALLY HAVE A REGRESSIVE EFFECT. I SAY IF THEY WANT TO SMOKE, LET THEM SMOKE. HOWEVER, THEY CANT START BITCHING WHEN THEY GET LUNG CANCER!!! ITS THEIR OWN DAMN FAULT. BANNING THEM WOULD BE SUPERFLUOUS. TAXING THEM GREATLY WOULD MAKE MORE SENSE.


KAYNE

 

[Robert Jan]

Recently I worked as an Intern in the Operating room in the hospital and more than half the time wed be operating on people who

*are heavy smokers and develop cancer somewhere in the respiratory system

*are overweight and damage joints carrying themselves

*are heavy drinkers (who need like the double the dosing of anastethics before they go down too)

I talked to this doc about this and he was very pissed off. Theres long lists of patients who need to be helped and they have to help people who fuck themselves up and will continue to do so.

At the same time conditions of patients who take care of themselves who are on the list, worsen as they wait for the lazy people to be helped.

this is why "freedom to fuck yourself up" shouldn`t be complete.

it always has a second meaning "freedom to fuck yourself up and have yourself fixed at other peoples expense"

and the second is wrong.

 

[manny78]

bump

 

[FarBeyondDriven]

NO!!

And in the same breath stop locking people up for smoking grass. I don't do either, but I respect freedom. And oh yeah, what about juice? I want it legal, it's my f'ng choice, not some fat ass cigar smoking politician.

But as previously stated, it is not the benefit of the citizen that carries wieght, it is the purse of the lobbyist.

Lumber companies banned marijuana so the could make paper.

Partnership for Drug Free America= Aneheisur Busch/ Phillip Morris. What a F'ng joke.

Your government doesn't care about you, they care about who will grease their pockets the most.

 

[Pamela]

I don't like cigarete smoke!!

But if cigaretes are ban;
then what's next?


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