should we ban smoking?

I just noticed that vivisimo endorses clusty, didn't we have a thread about that the other day?

 

They own Clusty (Clustering technology) ST

 

smoking is pretty old too.

the problem is society defends alcohol, like it would its own child.
Which shows just how addictive it is.


There really isnt any need for it, the same with smoking.

and alcohol causes far more problems than cigarretes !!!!!...far more.

 

WRONG! There is a need for beer! Beer is good!

I agree, smoking is bad and useless.

 

did i mention...

the problem is society defends alcohol, like it would its own child

 

I think they had cigarettes when Jesus was walking the earth, once a pastor with about 400 pounds on him told me I am going to hell for smoking ... that is where I get mad.

 

I agree with Crazy Rob

I am kinda drunk as I post, thankfully Rob did not say the hell with banning smokes and drink, ban Anthony

 

I take that back. Beer is bad!

http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=11329

 

lmao ...

 

Beer TASTE bad. I was a tequila gal myself....will be again after I give birth lol

 

Beer is about 6000 years old. Dates back to Babaylon.

Food is quite additcitve, maybe moreso. Society seems to defend that too.

Neither causes problems. People cause problems all by themselves. The problem is not with the substance so much as it is with the people who use and or abuse said substance. Again, food (the abuse there of)causes just as many health problems as smoking and drinking.

To much of anything can be a bad thing at times. Excercising self restraint and consuming things in moderation is a behaivor that society should best covet. Out right banning things just does not work.

 

But what about the damage to society as a whole when individuals do not exercise the restraint they should? Does society then have the right to protect itself by legislating morality?

 

Society is what causes it in the first place, the government makes big bucks off of drugs and tobacco and is in bed with the businesses that make this stuff.

 

I agree. Fat people suck up more than their fair share of oxygen. Therefore something ought to be done about that attrocity.

People that smell of bad BO are stinking up the Y where I work out.. I'm not talking about the usual work out sweat, I am talking about people that have never heard of deorderant or soap.

The list goes on... So society has the right to punish these people too? No society has the obligation to instill good behaivor. That starts at birth, it starts at home, and it certainly helps to have others re-enforcing good behaivor.

Society also has to leverage a bit of tolerance as well. After all, (where I am anyway) it is still a Free country, and a Representive Republic (where the majority decides), not an absolute democracy, where we give up Freedom for Order.

If I have to put up with seeing peolpe who over eat, people who smell, etc., I can tolerate people who smoke or drink. Again, all of these things can be bad for you. Even personal hygene. Ultimately it is the responsiblity of the individual to exercise some restraint, not society. Society is here to help mold behaivor in a direction that is appreciable to the majority, not to try to undo behaivor gone wrong.

 

If we are going to ban smoking and drinking, let's make sure that half of the food products found in your average grocery store become illegal as well.

 

of course if we determined ...

 

should not ban either, besides if they did, then no more tax revenue