(12-14-2022, 11:49 AM)americus 2.0 Wrote: As a former smoker I think tobacco should be banned period. It's expensive as hell, even here in NC, and it causes all sorts of health issues that everyone across the board ends up paying for in insurance premiums.

On the other hand I believe folks should be free to toast their lungs if they want as long as they don't do it around me and I don't have to pay for it in my insurance premium. The former is much easier than the latter.

In the case of NZ banning someone from buying it doesn't ban someone from consuming it but it can create a black market of sorts.

What, you don't like footing the bill for all the ills of society? You might need some re-education...I know a couple of socialist websites that will convince you to be willing and happy to pay.
Sarcasm aside, I don't understand the need to invite lung damaging smoke into a body, but as long as smokers aren't harming me with their secondhand smoke and aren't driving up my insurance premiums, then they can have at it. Of course, we both know it doesn't work that way.

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