• Guntrigger@feddit.ch
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    1 year ago

    Everyone here is arguing the benefits of prohibition. I’m just interested to know how much money Rishi (and/or his family members/friends/donors) have invested in vaping and nicotine alternatives.

    • Jojo@lemm.ee
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      1 year ago

      It always confuses me to learn that when people want to ban smoking it somehow means ban “cigarettes” and not “nicotine”

      • gmtom@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        Because smoking is WILDLY more harmful than vaping.

        Yes vaping has SOME health risks, but it’s like saying drinking tea and drinking four loko are just as bad because they both have caffeine

      • Son_of_dad@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        Well what’s wrong with nicotine? In itself it’s not worse than booze. It’s all the other crap they add that makes it so terrible

        • JoeBigelow@lemmy.ca
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          1 year ago

          Hi from the depths of a nicotine addiction and struggling to quit. Its a worthless chemical that gets more expensive everyday and my brain SCREAMS at me for a fix if I try to go more than even a few hours. At least heroin gets you high.

  • Illecors@lemmy.cafe
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    1 year ago

    I see angry wankers want to moan for the sake of moaning.

    Eliminating smoking is a goos thing! I’ll take my wins whenever possible, doesn’t happen all that often.

    • evatronic@lemm.ee
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      1 year ago

      But but there are other things that are also bad and if one proposal doesn’t solve everything it is complete trash!!!

  • gencha@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    Smoking is redundant today. Kids are getting enough cancer from the environment already.

    • smellythief@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      It’s not redundant. Harms compound. It’s not like people max out their carcinogenic index or something. 🙄

  • DigitalFrank@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    So we would eliminate smoking the same way we eliminated drug use…by making it illegal.

    /S if necessary