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Originally Posted by supremus
Cars are not chocolate, coffee or tea. That would be another fallacy. I answered the question in the context of what you yourself set out earlier. Cigarettes are not even remotely in the same category as cars. Surely I don't have to explain why?
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Why? You are claiming that passive smoking kills people. I am not denying that (I haven't seen evidence it kills people, but it is dangerous). I am claiming that pollution from cars and other vehicles has killed people. Where's the difference? Both are apparently killing innocents.
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And drink driving is illegal. Are you arguing in favor of legalizing drink driving now, because we're allowed to kill people with 2nd hand smoke? Your defense of smoking is completely illogical.
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I am not defending drink driving (as I stated, it *has* killed a lot of people). I merely used it as an example of a reason why smoking is not a unique threat. I also didn't introduce the examples of Tea and Chocolate you appear to take objection to. My earlier post was intended to show that if they ban this, they may decide to ban other stuff they say is dangerous.
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Originally Posted by RizzyKing
I'm sorry i simply can't agree it is a unique problem that merits the sort of treatment it is getting. Despite smoking supposedly being in decline for the last 25 years we are having ever higher rates of cancer. There are many things that could be causing this other then smoking but they would require time and money to properly research and analyse and while smoking is such an easy target no one is prepared to do it.
I think you are misunderstanding many of us we are not defending smoking so much as the right of an individual to choose to smoke which is totally different. We know P10 particles from exhaust fumes contribute heavily to asthma and other conditions and we need to find out exactly what other toxins our modern life is producing before we knee jerk react to one single perception.
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The fact is that it is easier for the government to blame smoking (or anything) for our current problems than actually find and implement a solution. It does seem that the government is keen to appear to do something, but not necessarily so keen to solve any problem.