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Safe Cigarettes?
CDPatten writes "The UK Times Online is reporting that we could see a 'safe cigarette' next
year. From the article: 'BRITISH American Tobacco
(BAT) is to launch a controversial 'safer cigarette' designed to cut the risk of
smoking-related diseases such as cancer and heart failure by up to 90%.'
I wonder if this will have any impact on the no smoking bans we have seen in recent years?"
i haven't been this furious since i heard about detox centers giving out clean needles to junkies or rave organizers giving out water bottles and pacifiers or free condoms to prevent the spread of STDs. if you're going to engage in dangerous and unsanctioned behavior, it's immoral to try to prevent the harmful consequences of said behavior. it's the right thing to do to let the sinful people die a horrible death
Damnit, throwing away mod points to reply to a niconazi.
My reasoning, is smoking bans are against the spirit of democracy, AND capitalism. The tyranny of the masses is telling individuals and establisments what they are, and are not allowed to do. If an establisment want to be non-smoking there is nothing to stop them.
I think it is purely aesthetic too, and one of those silly dogmatic liberal bandwagons.
I don't like women wearing perfume. BAN IT!
I don't like fat people! BAN THEM FROM PUBLIC PLACES!
Cellphones... BAN THEM, or to be fair execute people who have them in theaters and resturants, or while driving.
I don't care if you like smoking or not, or are a smoker or not, it is your individual choice, and I have no right to judge you by it. And if smoking does not cause undo harm to others, then you are just being an ass by telling them what to do, and a hypocrite for not worrying about more dangerous, obnoxious things.
A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government. -edward abbey
Odd, I could have sworn the troll was you. Just because you find cigarette smoke disgusting doesn't mean everyone does. Last time I checked, trolls tried to enforce their opinion on others. You know, kinda like the Christians in the Crusades. And boy howdy, THAT went well, didn't it?
Suck my cock while I suck down another Camel.
No, you're such an addled junkie that you don't even know what a "troll" is. You think it's a person who posts something you don't like - your personal preference. Not surprising that you're projecting your own major malfunctions onto me when it's you who is the one forcing others to suffer with your "beliefs" - your addiction. You're stupid enough to think that I care whether you feed your festering tumors, that I care what you think about how you're killing yourself. All I care about is that your poison is out of my face. That it preserves your life is just a negligible cost to preserving mine.
I'll spare us both the details of the obvious connection between your penis and a skinny little tube you insist on sucking yourself.
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Exactly ... and what do you wanna bet this new "safe" thing still smells to high heaven? I object to that too. I shouldn't have to smell that stuff all the way through dinner just because you can't wait for half an hour and/or go to the frickin' door and do it outside. Your right to indulge yourself ends where it harms others.
i am a soviet space shuttle
So go to a different restaurant. Who's holding a gun to your head saying that you have to go there? There were smoke free restaurants before the ban, surely chains will cater to the needs of people who don't like cigarette smoke. Simple economics.
Marxism is the opiate of dumbasses
... is that they kill smokers much too slowly.
Science fiction for grown-ups...