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?"

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Re:The difference is...

[kaleco]

I don't like the idea of my tax payments going to the NHS to subsidise people who like killing themselves slowly and painfully as an 'expression of personal freedom'. If you want to kill youself, try not to inconvenience other people when you do it. Your personal freedoms have consequences beyond yourself, and that is whu you need to start thinking responsibly.

However, I must concede that people should have the freedom to be irresponsible, but the education to make informed decisions for themselves. The government should not provide rigid parameters within which we must operate.