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Singapore's smoke-free law may have warded off 20,000 heart attacks in people over 65
(medicalxpress.com)
this post was submitted on 13 Oct 2023
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I'd like to see this in more places.
UK is talking about raising the smoke age each year. I think that’s pretty cool.
Absolutely! I see every day the awfully sick people in our hospital, one side lung left but still smoking 2 packs a day, practically living outside. In certain circumstances it should considered as involuntarily suicide. Plus: they annoy other people as fuck. Disgusting habit.
Do you see the same thing with morbidly obese people as well? Considering smokers are no longer in the top deaths now?
Fucking rude honestly. I've smoked on and off for a lot of my life, having quit again now for 4 years. I've seen both sides but I really abhor the old 'it's a disgusting habit'. I can understand how it is, the smell, the yellowing of your teeth and fingers etc but just what's the point? Putting addicts down on your high horse?
You should just be pleased you didn't make a poor choice growing up and live your life. Let them kill themselves if they choose to never kick the habit. I firmly believe it's a human right, you can't force people into a style of accepted living. People really just want the world to be exactly how they perceive it should be and have zero tolerance for anything they don't like.
It's just more people discriminating against others for bullshit reasons.
I'm an off-and-on again quitter. Smoking is the worst habit; it's not discriminating on people to:
not want the world littered with cig butts.
not wanting to smell disgusting cig smoke as people walk by or worse, loiter, blowing their garbage into houses and apartments.
not wanting to pay for the enormous burden this habit puts on the healthcare system for nothing but perpetually addicted suckers who got hooked before they got sense.
it's a burden on society writ large, from the asshole flicking out a cig that starts a wildfire (the world is already burning) to the dickheads who vape on the train. I wish it would all go away.
Smoking is the worst habit, I've said it many times myself but it's not disgusting. It's the worst in terms of cost, what you get in return and the fact it's a drug thats only real high is making you want more.
People smoking doesn't equal litter, to blame them all is.. Disgusting.
Fair but I smell plenty of gross people every day who aren't smokers.
Don't know where you live but in Australia, we pay almost $60 a pack and that $40+ of tax is for my healthcare.
Yeah yeah, I wish you would go away or at least become a bit more tolerant.
it does - it's air pollution of the worst kind. their fucking buts end up in the marine life. want more tolerance? get fucked or stop smoking you douchecanoe.
You're a fucking retard and obviously didn't read any of my comments. I quit and I never fucking littered. The worst kind of air pollution is from factories, power plants and refineries - cigarettes are completely negligible.
Go get some education.
sure bud, whatever you tell yourself.
Nonsensical.
You know they also banned gum right?