LogFAQs > #931883200

If I was a dictator, the sale of cigs would be banned, and tobacco execs and marketers would be in jail yesterday. They've destroyed so many lives by spewing a deadly, addictive, and utterly useless product. They've imposed a huge burden on our healthcare system. They've cost society hugely in productivity. They market to vulnerable teens so that they'll pick up an expensive, deadly lifelong habit.

People talk about freedom on this issue, but there's a lot of things you're not allowed to do, even to yourself. You're not allowed to shoot yourself in the temple. You're not allowed to choose to die even when every day of your life is pure pain. You're not allowed to pour toxic fumes on the street. But smoking slowly kills you and those around you, mostly because addiction makes not doing it feel bad.

Anyone who makes doing that their primary business is a sociopath who has well and truly earned jail more than anyone other than a murder or rapist.

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