How? Tobacco is tobacco and shitty for you no matter where you get it from, also most people don't have a field to grow it in or space to cure it. Any time you buy pretty much anything you're being exploited by one shitty company or another. Any of these arguments can apply as much if not moreso to alcohol and they can freely advertise that and no one is saying we ban booze that tastes good or demand that beer be sold in a plain can with just Beer written on it in a plain font with an image or a destroyed liver and no one seems to have an issue there.
Never said it was good for you, even if it was homegrown, but why are we defending large tobacco companies that knowingly add harmful additives to their cigs and pretty much prey upon the poor with their product? That's what's got me confused here. It feels like people are tripping over themselves to go to bat for Philip Morris. And yeah it's a shitty equivalence because people need to go to the store and by groceries. The grocery store isn't putting rat poison in their food and selling it back to you.
The grocery store itself isn't, but the companies that make the food sure are. How much high-fructose corn syrup is in everything nowadays? What kind of preservatives and flavoring agents and coloring chemicals are added to damn near anything you can buy? Maybe it's not rat poison, but unless you're growing, packaging, and preparing your own food, you have no more idea of what kind of additives it contains than a smokers knows what's in their cigs.
Saying that tobacco companies are no worse or better than the ones selling you processed food that will give you stomache cancer isn't going to bat for them. You're the one that said tobacco is cool if it's homegrown so I don't see how that wouldn't apply to everything else as well.
How? Tobacco is tobacco and shitty for you no matter where you get it from, also most people don't have a field to grow it in or space to cure it. Any time you buy pretty much anything you're being exploited by one shitty company or another. Any of these arguments can apply as much if not moreso to alcohol and they can freely advertise that and no one is saying we ban booze that tastes good or demand that beer be sold in a plain can with just Beer written on it in a plain font with an image or a destroyed liver and no one seems to have an issue there.
Never said it was good for you, even if it was homegrown, but why are we defending large tobacco companies that knowingly add harmful additives to their cigs and pretty much prey upon the poor with their product? That's what's got me confused here. It feels like people are tripping over themselves to go to bat for Philip Morris. And yeah it's a shitty equivalence because people need to go to the store and by groceries. The grocery store isn't putting rat poison in their food and selling it back to you.
The grocery store itself isn't, but the companies that make the food sure are. How much high-fructose corn syrup is in everything nowadays? What kind of preservatives and flavoring agents and coloring chemicals are added to damn near anything you can buy? Maybe it's not rat poison, but unless you're growing, packaging, and preparing your own food, you have no more idea of what kind of additives it contains than a smokers knows what's in their cigs.
Saying that tobacco companies are no worse or better than the ones selling you processed food that will give you stomache cancer isn't going to bat for them. You're the one that said tobacco is cool if it's homegrown so I don't see how that wouldn't apply to everything else as well.
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