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In reply to the discussion: Just ban cigarettes already. Please. [View all]Ron Green
(9,837 posts)both individually and socially. There's really no way to use tobacco moderately without addiction. There's no way to establish an appropriate time of day for smoking, as there is for responsible drinking. There's no level of smoking that has actually been shown to be health positive, as some studies have shown for red wine. And so on.
A thread like this always brings out libertarians, anecdotists and people who conflate issues of "personal freedom" with those of public health.
Yeah, this country was built on tobacco (see Jamestown), but it was also built on slavery and we got rid of that. It's time to get rid of the modern form of slavery known as the "custom" of smoking, which is nothing but a corporate-driven drug delivery system that reaches to every corner of America.