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Originally Posted by clarie
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!
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If the Government spent money on all of those things then they would save lives.
They could ban cars in town centres to stop the passive intake of car fumes, quite easily just make it so that anyone driving into a citry centre has to have an electric car.
But they target the perceived threat of passive smoking
I don't see where there is a difference, if they were to announce a series of initiatives where they were to address all of the carcinogens in the atmosphere then I would support a total smoking ban. But they're not.
There is even little hard evidence on the effects of "passive smoke" but there is hard evidence on the effects of lead and other heavy elements that are kicked out into the atmospshere every day and little is done.