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Originally Posted by Shoeless Moe
I'll drink to that. But can you ban cigarette's? Basically that'd be the only way to get that done, which I'm for, but it would be like weed, you'd open a new market of black market cigarettes, basically doing a weed for smokes flip flop.
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Complicated subject. A few random thoughts.
One, it just bothers me to see all these politicians urging people to do all this stuff to mitigate the impact of the virus (most of which I agree with by the way) while being terrified of and in many cases supported by the tobacco lobby and not ever speaking up about the dangers of smoking. Maybe it's apples to oranges but something doesn't sit well.
Two, there are things we could do short of banning cigarettes, I think. Better education about the dangers (I mean, you don't hear a word about it ever any more, but you hear 24 7 about the coronavirus). Better measures to protect children against second hand smoke in the home. More help to people trying to quit.
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