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Originally Posted by Chris
We go round the houses with the 'what about alcohol' fallacy every time a smoking thread comes up on this forum.
Even if alcohol was singularly responsible for every act of crime and depravity ever committed, it would not alter the fact that tobacco is a dangerous, addictive drug that in and of itself needs to be dealt with.
As it happens, the sale of alcohol is already far more tightly regulated than the sale of tobacco is. The more relaxed regime around its advertising and consumption might just have something to do with the fact that, as Chrysalis says, alcohol may be addictive to some people whereas tobacco is addictive to almost all.
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So ban it then.
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Originally Posted by Chris
Smoking is not simply banned outright because too many people are addicted to it. It can't be banned outright until the number of addicts is manageably small. That will take some years to achieve and plans such as removing tobacco from sight are designed to move us towards that aim.
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It's not heroin,
Most people that I know, that have given up - myself included, only feel the craving for a cigarette when around other people that are smoking.#
It's the social thing.
Nicotene is well out of the bodys system in a couple of days. It's not a "physical" after that period it's mental.
Just ban it, everybody freaks out for a few days then that's it.