Contratrombone64
Admiral of Fugues
Food for thought:
Warning, this rant contains strong language, do not read it if you are offended by strong language
Putting the kybosh on tabacco is like cracking down on satan worship. It's easy to put the boot into something that is antisocial without an apology. Smoking stinks and it's bad for you and it'll likely kill you.
By government estimates, Australia pays out around $31 billion per year in healthcare and lost productivity due to smoking. It kills 16,000 Aussies each year and, more importantly, deludes vacuous teenagers into thinking they are "cool" when in point of fact they just look like vacuous teens trying to be "cool".
So where does the government stand on alcohol, equally deadly when misused. Even though it's a citizen's right to walk about down town on a saturday evening without getting bothered, accosted, assulted, run over or vomitted on by some fu.ckwit who gets a dose of "big man syndrome" by getting pis.sed. Because if smoking is the devil worship of legal substance ingestion then surely drinking drinking is the Christianity.
Don't get me wrong, I love a drink occasionally and I try my best to limit my intake so that my judgement isn't hindred as a result.
I'd love to hear your thoughts about this from a British perspective (Margaret), Canadian (Stephen) or American (Lars). Feel free to pipe in.
Warning, this rant contains strong language, do not read it if you are offended by strong language
Putting the kybosh on tabacco is like cracking down on satan worship. It's easy to put the boot into something that is antisocial without an apology. Smoking stinks and it's bad for you and it'll likely kill you.
By government estimates, Australia pays out around $31 billion per year in healthcare and lost productivity due to smoking. It kills 16,000 Aussies each year and, more importantly, deludes vacuous teenagers into thinking they are "cool" when in point of fact they just look like vacuous teens trying to be "cool".
So where does the government stand on alcohol, equally deadly when misused. Even though it's a citizen's right to walk about down town on a saturday evening without getting bothered, accosted, assulted, run over or vomitted on by some fu.ckwit who gets a dose of "big man syndrome" by getting pis.sed. Because if smoking is the devil worship of legal substance ingestion then surely drinking drinking is the Christianity.
Don't get me wrong, I love a drink occasionally and I try my best to limit my intake so that my judgement isn't hindred as a result.
I'd love to hear your thoughts about this from a British perspective (Margaret), Canadian (Stephen) or American (Lars). Feel free to pipe in.
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