• Letstakealook@lemm.ee
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    3 months ago

    Smoker hate is just another form of classism. Smoking could have been eradicated decades ago, but instead, they allowed these companies to continue to peddle death to the disenfranchised while placing all the blame (and tax burden) on the users. Now, governments and private entities continually restrict the spaces that people can smoke while still allowing the sale on every street corner. This is just another case of class warfare, poison the poor and blame them for the situation.

      • Letstakealook@lemm.ee
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        3 months ago

        Then why is the hate directed at the addicts and not the companies who produce the product or the governments who allow these companies to flourish?

    • Cruxifux@feddit.nl
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      3 months ago

      I seriously don’t get the smoker hate. But I live in Canada, maybe that’s more of a UK thing.

      It’s not really an issue here. You can’t smoke inside bars like anywhere here, but you go outside and smoke and it’s fine. Not on patios or anywhere they serve food but usually you just go smoke outside the bar. If you don’t want to be around the smoke you just don’t hang out where the smokers are smoking, and like… why would you anyway?

      If you can’t even smoke outside then like… where do you go if you smoke? Can you just go across the street or is it like a street wide ban?