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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?"
Why don't you haul your ignorant bigoted ass over to the alt.smokers.pipes newsgroup and learn something before parroting what the anti-smoking nazis have taught you.
Smoking has no beneficial purpose. Cars, materials and cell phones do. Even nuclear weapons are a good deterrent.
It's expensive because the idiots in the government make it so.
Hitler was a rabid anti-smoker. It's kind of like farts: anything other than your own smell is distasteful.
The anti-smoking efforts have become extreme, but "they're doing it for our own good".
Yeah, right, it's really all about control.
> Seems unreasonable doesnt it.
Seems reasonable to me. I've often dreamed about how wonderful the city would be if everyone had to park their cars outside the limits and take public transportation to get around inside. If banning smoking in public means we need to ban cars too, then excellent! I win double!
But let me ask you this -- how come I have an allergic reaction to a nearby smoker and not a nearby car?
(Both are "harmless" by your definition -- so why am I harmed by second hand smoke? Because you're lying to support your drug addiction. Get help.)
My other car is first.
you are a damned idiot!
a nicotine free joint cause im against drugs.
drugs have an adverse effect on the people around the drug use, that is the point of drug laws. if drugs only effected the person doing them they would be legal!
canabis is a drug and effects all around. it increases crime rates and impacts childrens health. and if you are one of those pricks that says your hurting no-one, how about smoking around children, or smoking and then 'supervising' children. how about driving intoxicated. yeah, canabis IMPAIRS driving ability and cause many accidents! the fact that alcohol shadows canabis in the number of intoxicant related deaths does not mean it is safe.
find a drug that does not effect the people around the user and I will agree that it should be legal.
You, sir, are the moron. The poster's point is that pot smokers would prefer not to have to add a damaging, addictive substance to their relatively harmless smoke. Nicotine is far more harmful than marijuana, and many pot smokers are attuned to this fact. As a side note, I hope you don't vote, because you're a goddamn fascist, coupled with the fact that you're ill-informed.
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Talking trash on the interweb is fun! Physical threats from behind the veil of anonymity! WHEEEE! Wait, what's that? Definition of "Troll"? *GASP* NO!
"why do you ask? "
/. moderation, where they gave your senseless ramblings a +5, and modded my insightful reply down. I guess there's a lot of smokers on slashdot looking to justify their addiction.
Because most people who defend their right to smoke so strongly, are strongly addicted to nicotine, and the drug warps their sense of reason so they can justify stupid things like smoking.
"smoking out in the open is not a risk for anyone but the smoker themselves, "
And that shows what you know: nothing. There are loads of people can can have a breathing attack in open air smoking areas, brought on by the smoke. This is one reason why in Canada, some sports stadiums that don't have domes are smoke free, because you can smell the ruddy smoke from 10 seats and 5 rows over from the nicotine junkie that just can't wait 3 hours to light up.
I don't think I've seen a worse case of
Saskboy's blog is good. 9 out of 10 dentists agree.