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I saw a old movie on TV last night where they were casually smoking in a hospital.
I did, back in the 1980's. Nurses brought us ashtrays and everything. Never did get the idea of allowing smoking in Grocery Stores though, ashes dropping all over the food and all. <yuck>
Here's another one, hows about cooks with a cigg hanging out of their mouths puffing away while they're working? I remember seeing that many times...
You do realize that an ad hominem attack is not an arguing point, right? You didn't dispute a thing I said other than your age. I would say being "clueless" is more in line of not discussing anything that was stated and rather, simply calling someone clueless to make you feel better about yourself.
Your cell phone Red Herring is just that.
Being clueless is not ad hominum, just an observation of your lack of grasp of the issues.
Well, cigarettes are sold at about every gas station and conv store, heck they are still sold at most drug stores (only one chain has dropped them!)
When products or drugs are deemed to be unhealthy or dangerous, ACCESS is restricted/ regulated...make them more difficult to obtain, there is rarely any concern for the manufacturer or their profits.
It is NOT access or even legality, per se. It is usage in such a way that violates the rights of others, i.e. to NOT have the air they are breathing polluted with toxic, disgusting filth. Use "your" drug in such a way as to not violate others, i.e. NOT to inflict your filth on them, and there is no problem. However if thete is one thing we know about almost all smokers is they don't give damn about any one except themselves. A filthy, disgusting, narcissistic group if ever there was one.
Keep your filthy disgusting stench to your filthy, disgusting selves.
I dont think they can legally prevent people from smoking in their cars, but I would imagine all the employees are too concerned about their jobs to take any risks.
Its really strange to me, places like Citibank and other employers are banning smoking on their property more and more, even some public places have outdoor smoking bans...all this...and they will not go after the tobacco companies or come up with ways to restrict access to tobacco products??!!! WTF?
I dont understand this at all, when opioid prescription drugs started becoming a problem, they were very quick to target access to the drugs and the pharma companies themselves, not to mention tobacco kills FAR more people that opioids have, the only thing I can think of is that tobacco industry must have the absolute best, top of the line lobbyists on the planet, much better than lobbyists for the pharma industry, some people say its about money, but if that were true, opioid prescription drugs were flying off the shelves, and some were selling for $100 a pill on the street...LOTS of money was coming in thanks to opioid drug sales, and this didnt stop Govt from throwing a wrench into it, if they wanted a cut of it, they could have slapped a sin tax on opioids and watch the cash roll in...but they didnt, they went with the option that cut off the money...?
Id like to sit down with someone from DEA or ATF and ask them about this, why is the tobacco industry exempt from Govt intrusion, and much are they paying to keep it this way.
What's even more funny is how companies like CitiBank and other financial firms are so worried about people to ban smoking but are more than willing to cheat investors and destroy people's lives over $$$$$$ and rip off the public via bailouts.
Yeah, they really care about "the people"...
Classic deflection and what most dictatorial fanatics do. See, I can play your game too!
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