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Originally Posted by Cheese
well hang on thar fella. Make cigarettes illegal and see how people react. Right now the big diff is that a cigarette addict can walk to the local corner store and buy his fix...a heroin addict cant do that, hence the extremes. Would it be the same? I dunno, but Ill bet ya that there would be quite a few smokers who would take a similar step.
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Yeah but what on earth does that have to do with smokers outside of a doorway?
And either way it is true. You can buy cigarettes legally, you can't buy heroin legally. This debate isn't centered around the effects of illegalization of cigarettes. At least that's not what I'm talking about, nor are the posts I'm responding to.
I'm responding to people using "it causes cancer" and "they're addicts, worse than heroin!!" to describe why people smoke in doorways. That's misleading and basically lying.
The real reason is that people are dicks. The same people who litter their McD's, let their dog #### on your lawn and cut you off in traffic are the problem. It's not about smoking, it is about the dickhead people doing it.
If you wanted to argue that a higher percentage of inconsiderate dicks smoke, I'd love to hear it but I don't know how you'd ever prove it.