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I think the argument against that stance, Tranny, is that alcohol, in moderation, really isn't that bad for you (glass of red wine, etc) while smoking has zero benefit.
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I get that...however IF everyone who drinks only has a glass of red wine a day thats the only way that argument has any merit. That, as you and I both know, simply is not the truth though.
Look at it this way. John Doe can go to the liquor store and browze 10 aisles of hooch, buy a dozen bottles of hard stuff and then proceed to go home and drink them one after the other and no one blinks an eye.
Another guy wants to go to his local tobaccanist, get a dozen panamanian cigars to smoke once a week after a dinner, cant even see what is offered, cant be told what is offered, cant go to a bar or patio (that one still baffles me) to smoke them and is villified for even attempting to do so.
Both LEGAL products and BOTH taxed by the same governments.
The double standard is stupifying, but so many cant or wont admit it.
I dont think anyone is saying that smoking is a good thing for anyone, but anything in moderation certainly is not neccessarily a bad thing.
The fast food/alcohol/speed bike arguments are a bit of a stretch, but the standard is set by the government themselves, not the smoking population. If its bad for you and it can affect others...then everything that can do that should be under the same sort of scrutiny....they aren't.
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It is the addiction that makes smoking different.
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LOTS of people are addicted to alcohol. Thousands and thousands as a matter of fact. I wonder to this day why there are not pictures of livers that were affected by scerosis like the cigarteetes that have pictures of smokers lungs...yet another double standard. Pictures of decapitated bodies that were involved in alcohol related trafiic deaths would be another one.