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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
I imagine the difference with tobacco and alcohol is that people are much more likely to actually partake, and thus go "hey, this is a thing I like being taken away!"
A comparatively small number of people are ever going to do meth or crack, or whatever. Though this could just be me talking nonsense.
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They do it to stop feeling bad and get hooked due to the addictive qualities (which were downplayed by the ones selling it).
It's not too different from smokers who start doing it to feel good only to get hooked due to the addictive qualities.
Okay, one huge difference is that no doctor would prescribe smoking.
It helps that tobacco and alcohol are already rather regulated in terms of who they can be sold to, the warning labels, etc. Though you can bet that the industries didn't allow those regulations to go through without a fight.
Edited by M84 on May 8th 2019 at 4:00:02 PM
Disgusted, but not surprisedAs someone who is pretty strongly against vice laws of any kind, I do loathe cigars and cigarettes because of what they do to the people around the smoker. If YOU want to fill your lungs with black tar, that's your decision. But MY lungs are full of black tar because of choices made by people around me growing up and that's not cool.
There is a serious possibility that I might die of lung cancer having never smoked a cigarette in my life. That is a problem.
I'm in favor of decriminalization for a lot of recreational substances and activities, but I want smoking banned. If you are smoking in my vicinity, that is an attack against my life. You wouldn't let someone walk around a room injecting meth or whatever into everybody against their will, would you?
Vaping eliminates second-hand smoke as a concern, so I'm fine with that. So long as people around you are not being forced to consume your deadly substance, you do you.
My Tumblr. Currently side-by-side liveblogging Digimon Adventure, sub vs dub.Why not force all of the higher ups to consume all of their product? That would be karma!
ASAB: All Sponsors Are Bad.Over a billion people smoke. Statistically speaking, some of the higher-ups probably do.
My Tumblr. Currently side-by-side liveblogging Digimon Adventure, sub vs dub.On an up-shot, the NY Senate passed the TRUST Act 39-21
, allowing the appropriate (Federal) House and Senate committees to request access from NY State itself for an individual's tax returns if the Federal Treasury department declines to. They would, naturally, apply solely to NY State returns filed, so it'd only be part of the picture, but it's a not-insignificant part.
Edited by ironballs16 on May 8th 2019 at 4:26:58 AM
"Why would I inflict myself on somebody else?"I'm overall pleased with this twist in the Mueller Report because it is a serious undermining of the, "No Collusion!" and "nothing to be afraid of!" Narrative that they were peddling. Also, there's the chance for Barr to serve jail time and yet another example that Trump does not reward loyalty.
Author of The Rules of Supervillainy, Cthulhu Armageddon, and United States of Monsters.Just in case you think Republicans can't get any worse:
(Reposted from RPG.net by Bane Sidhe)
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/23/us/navy-seals-crimes-of-war.html
There's a Navy Seal CPO named Eddie Gallagher who's currently facing a Court Martial for a bevy of charges, after a dozen+ men under his command risked an institutional wall-of-silence to report him for such acts as
-Stabbing a wounded, unarmed, 15-year-old detainee to death to death with a knife, then posting pictures of himself standing over the corpse on the internet and bragging about it.
-Shooting multiple unarmed old men, women, and children from a sniper position, none of whom posed any apparent or possible threat.
-Commandeering a light vehicle and randomly spraying a neighborhood in Mosul with .50 caliber machine-gun fire and rockets apparently simply because he could.
He's up for premeditated murder, conspiracy to commit murder, and several other charges.
40 Congressional Republicans have already, despite overwhelming evidence, signed a petition calling for his release. They have drummed up over 300,000 dollars to support him. Trump has already stepped in to have him moved to 'less restrictive confinement' (meaning that instead of being in prison while awaiting trial, he's confined to a Naval medical center), and has already made noise about pardoning Gallagher if he's convicted.
It's been said before, it needs to be said again as many times as it takes to sink in.
The Cruelty Is the Point.
Somebody who is, by all accounts, a psychopathic murderer and war-criminal is being hailed as a hero and an innocent victim because he was terrorizing and killing the 'right people.' They see nothing wrong with this. Rule of law, morality, shame, means nothing. This is about power, the gleeful abuse of it, and reveling in freedom from consequences.
Author of The Rules of Supervillainy, Cthulhu Armageddon, and United States of Monsters.

Re: proposed vaping ban to drive teenagers to 'proper' cigarettes: You know, if this wasn't 2019, I'd think that was some sort of evil plot thought up by a Captain Planet villain. The times we live in, huh? :V
Those sell-by-dates won't stop me because I can't read!