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I absolutely support the legislation and applaud the courage and principled positions that underwrite it. 100 million people died from cigarettes in the 20th Century, and I'm pretty convinced that centuries from now, people will view our implicit and explicit complicity with corporate tobacco as one of the most profound moral shames of the entire era. There is simply no analogue to the level of lethality and addictiveness of the substance and the mendacity of industry, which is why comparisons to things like 1920's Prohibition are weak at best. The industry has spent BILLIONS of dollars over the past 75 years normalizing and politicizing the notion that eliminating the product would be an assault on freedom, and they've been pretty darn effective; those dollars and the entities that accepted the cash and the absurd equation of smoking and freedom are really the only differences between corporate tobacco products and, say, Thalidamide or DDTs. For those interested in a thoughtful, trenchantly argued, and deeply researched monograph on the subject, I recommend Robert Proctor's 2011 book, Golden Holocaust (U of CA P). Christian99 (a proud abolitionist)-- 24+ Years Quit

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Corruption at its finest! Thank you, your view sure feels better than my "it's pointless" view. Now to source bifocals...

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Hey @Lars. Hope you’re well and doing something special to celebrate. A major milestone!

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I am saying NOPE to smoking for today.

Gday No Not pointless. And you don’t have rose colour glasses. Have a get a pair of bifocals you can see up close and see off in the distance. Gives you a full view. It doesn’t matter really if the law gets repealed in the end. It doesn’t take away from the fact that it was law. Having to say I can now smoke or vape cause a political party used it to get voted in. Really. It’s pretty obvious a crook of Site. There’s not that many smoker vapers now. They are a minority at lest in this country. People don’t except smoking vaping anymore. As for the black market it’s self correcting who wants to except firebombing etc. The 12per cent of nicotine addicts facing the rest of us. Anyway that’s my rave

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I am not going to smoke today. NOPE.

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