• yukichigai
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    72 years ago

    Normally I’d agree, but cigarettes in particular are a product that is designed to be as addictive as possible with a laundry list of negative health impacts and virtually zero positive ones. Combine that with the fact that you aren’t just putting it in your body but the body of anyone within breathing distance of you, there’s a strong case to be made for banning them outright.

    Put it another way, if cigarettes are legal then marijuana, LSD, MDMA, and a whole host of other drugs should be legal too.

    • Rhynoplaz
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      282 years ago

      Put it another way, if cigarettes are legal then marijuana, LSD, MDMA, and a whole host of other drugs should be legal too.

      Yes. Yes they should.

    • @[email protected]
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      Combine that with the fact that you aren’t just putting it in your body but the body of anyone within breathing distance of you,

      That’s part of responsible use. I’m ok with only letting smokers smoke in specialty ventilated & filtered areas. Easy for me to say, I don’t smoke. But if any adult wants to make an informed decision to, that should be their choice.

      Put it another way, if cigarettes are legal then marijuana, LSD, MDMA, and a whole host of other drugs should be legal too.

      I emphatically agree.

    • Melkath
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      -12 years ago

      Bruh, you know tobacco is a plant. Right?

      Alcohol needs so much work to be made.

      Tobacco is a plant.

      Just like weed.

        • Melkath
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          -32 years ago

          That noone “made it” the way it is, and if dudes gonna smoke a plant, let dude smoke a plant.

          • yukichigai
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            22 years ago

            Cigarettes != tobacco. Tobacco is an ingredient in cigarettes, and not the only one, not by a long shot. Literally dozens of additives are included in cigarettes, many of which are designed to make them more addictive.

            Secondly, modern tobacco absolutely was “made” the way it is, first through selective breeding and then genetic modification to (among other things) increase Nicotine content. Much in the same way that modern weed is far stronger than the stuff grown 50 years ago, so too is tobacco.