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Originally Posted by SlackDad
Please (re)read my previous posts on this subject. This a a rather glib response to the serious issue of mental health problems. The fact that you may or may not get lung cancer is not going to have much bearing on somebody suffering a mental illness.
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I have re-read your posts and I still disagree that this is a relevant point that goes against a ban. As said before, no one is being forced to quit, and furthermore from what I have read, smoking and depression perpetuate each other, and smoking can cause depression, or make it more likely that you will develop depression.
Even if smoking were a good remedy for depression this still has no effect or benefit for non-smokers, and smoking and passive smoking are still bad for the health!
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Originally Posted by Pierre
figure of speech.
But why single out smoking when it is proven that all these other things affect people that have no choice.
whereas non-smokers have a choice.
and to use your anology it's like saying we can cure Aids, Cancer, Hepatitis, Ebola, glandular fever and Bird flu.
But that would be too expensive at this time so we'll pick an easy target and cure the common cold. Only they can't cure the cold all they can do is hand out lemsips.
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You cannot compare smoking to the common cold in your analogy as smoking is one of the most dangerous and risky causes of cancer of all of the things affecting our healths on a daily basis. And even if your analogy were true, so what? How is that a bad thing? Maybe it is too expensive and too difficult to cure those illnesses yet, doesn't mean we should sit on our asses and do nothing!