Yet another problem that would be helped by wealth equality.
Punishing people for finding coping mechanisms that are required to stay sane is not good policy.
We can have cigarette smokers, or they can all lose their hair and jobs from stress.
Let the kids smoke, maybe enough of them will get asthma and will be able to dodge the draft.
I mean I don't think kids should actually smoke, but I always find it funny that on some things governments are willing to move heaven and earth for the sake of the children.....and then turn a blind eye to things like global warming and war. Like these are also bad for the children my dudes.
Yeah but curbing climate change doesn’t let the government strip people’s privacy and bodily autonomy rights away.
ETA: No I don’t think kids should smoke either, and the warnings are good. It’s the willful abuse of “think of the children” by lawmakers I’m addressing.
It's not about the children, as usual. It's big pharma and big tobacco wanting to remove the biggest threat to their chantix and cigarettes scheme.
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