Rare case of not even reading the title of the post I guess
The criminals are the people selling the cigarettes, not the people smoking them. They're going after the capitalist predators who make their living on peddling deadly addiction. Good.
I need you to know that the controversiality is not from "simply" saying that people should be allowed a cig, but from making a false equivalency between cigarettes, a product that contains 20 different carcinogenic substances and, if you are a smoker, lowers your life expectancy on average by 6.5 years, and coffee, a product that hasn't been shown to have any effect on life expectancy. This is not people being inconsistent because they think drugs are bad and therefore want to ban the bad drug, but oh, have never considered banning their sweet, sweet personal drug. It's people wanting to ban the thing that overall shortens your life, for the same reason that, if it were legal, they would ban consumption of asbestos. Cigarettes being a drug is only incidental to this.
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I love how the most controversial thing I ever did on this site was simply saying that people should be allowed to have a cig
It's kind of depressing how so many people on here are just completely decoupled from real life.
But I suppose that's what happens when you're born and raised in Amerikkka
14 year old children should not actually be allowed to have a cig, you are the one decoupled from real life
And then that 14 year old gets a criminal record for having a smoke.
I'm not fucking saying that I'm ok with children smoking.
Then what are you outraged about, there are no adults born after 2008
And those 14 year olds who will inevitably start smoking could end up with a criminal record if/when they are caught by the coppers.
But that's a good thing now I suppose? We're now in favor of our bougie dictatorships making kids criminals for literally nothing?
Come the fuck on.
Rare case of not even reading the title of the post I guess
The criminals are the people selling the cigarettes, not the people smoking them. They're going after the capitalist predators who make their living on peddling deadly addiction. Good.
So you think NZ cops will stop harrassing kids who smoke?
Do you think that cracking down on tobacco peddlers in any way affects the frequency with which cops harass teenagers unrelated to this change?
Why?
The guy selling a 20 to a teenager is definitely the "capitalist" we need to focus on.
Why are you in favor of people being poisoned for profit? Do you take a similarly positive view of casino owners?
I need you to know that the controversiality is not from "simply" saying that people should be allowed a cig, but from making a false equivalency between cigarettes, a product that contains 20 different carcinogenic substances and, if you are a smoker, lowers your life expectancy on average by 6.5 years, and coffee, a product that hasn't been shown to have any effect on life expectancy. This is not people being inconsistent because they think drugs are bad and therefore want to ban the bad drug, but oh, have never considered banning their sweet, sweet personal drug. It's people wanting to ban the thing that overall shortens your life, for the same reason that, if it were legal, they would ban consumption of asbestos. Cigarettes being a drug is only incidental to this.
That is absolutely not what I'm saying, but you already knew that