Why is smoking allowed.

Smoking, smokers n non smokers.
Peoples attitudes towards smokers must change.
They say it's YOUR CHOICE to smoke. They don't realise it's a highly addictive and unnecessary habit.
If we took the YOUR CHOICE attitude of other activities n didn't care about what happens to them how would they feel. Say someone was riding a bicycle and they came off and hurt themselves and someone came up to them and instead of helping just shrugged their shoulders and said "Oh well, YOUR CHOICE." Then walked away without helping them how would they feel. You could say the cyclist had an accident but it was THEIR CHOICE to cycle and pursue that activity. They knew the risks. Cyclists don't even pay an excessive tax for their activity. You could say the same about other activities that have risks.
Smoking is totally unnecessary and is there just to kill people for money.
More people die from smoking (which is legal) each year than illegal drug deaths.
On cigarette packaging it advertises "Tobacco smoke contains over 70 substances known to cause cancer." And I'm thinking REALLY, and why do they put all these poisons in, probably to keep you addicted and they get away with it.
Legalities are obviously bought off and swept under the carpet. Attempting suicide is supposed to be illegal yet nothing is said when someone has a cigarette knowingly taking in poison and killing themselves. Also giving someone a cigarette is knowingly giving them something that will poison them.
It's YOUR CHOICE not to care.
If people actually think about it then it’s barbaric that we have this choice.

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  • Both tobacco and alcohol are so established within society, and the world over, they couldn't outright ban either. Both have been done for generations. Their only option is to do what they are currently looking to do as far as tobacco is concerned, make sure anyone under a certain age of a ban being enforced never reach the age where they can legally purchase tobacco.

    If tobacco and alcohol were more recent introductions, they would probably never be legalised in this day and age. But yeah, they'd never get away with just outright banning people from using tobacco.

    As for alcohol, it's amazing the amount of people who gloss over the fact that it has no positive impact on folks lives, healthwise, and if anything it can cause severe damage in next to no time, whereas smoking risks are chronic in nature. All those "red wine is good for you" claims are based on nothing other than research that the alcohol industry have helped finance. A bit like when tobacco companies used to finance research into smoking, that research claimed the health risks were overblown. Zero alcohol is the best measurement, but folk still believe all that garbage they have read or heard others parrot.

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  • Both tobacco and alcohol are so established within society, and the world over, they couldn't outright ban either. Both have been done for generations. Their only option is to do what they are currently looking to do as far as tobacco is concerned, make sure anyone under a certain age of a ban being enforced never reach the age where they can legally purchase tobacco.

    If tobacco and alcohol were more recent introductions, they would probably never be legalised in this day and age. But yeah, they'd never get away with just outright banning people from using tobacco.

    As for alcohol, it's amazing the amount of people who gloss over the fact that it has no positive impact on folks lives, healthwise, and if anything it can cause severe damage in next to no time, whereas smoking risks are chronic in nature. All those "red wine is good for you" claims are based on nothing other than research that the alcohol industry have helped finance. A bit like when tobacco companies used to finance research into smoking, that research claimed the health risks were overblown. Zero alcohol is the best measurement, but folk still believe all that garbage they have read or heard others parrot.

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