The number of daily smokers in Spain decreases every year and some countries are already legislating their progressive illegalization. However, new forms of consumption such as vaping show that there is still a long way to go.
It is by a long shot. The detractors focus too much on how it’s not perfect and say because it isn’t that it’s garbage. It helped me to stop smoking 10 years ago before I got even more hooked and it was easier to quit than cigarettes.
Increase the tax another level and then peg the total value to the consumer price index. This ensures that the cost of tobacco continues to increase in line with inflation.
Add in a % of value reward for reporting illegally imported tobacco and you now have a continuously effective way of reducing smoking.
I feel like that’s quite possibly the worst example you could have chosen to support your statement. Making it close to illegal to be homeless is wrong, and a treatment of symptoms not the illness. Besides which, secondhand smoke is not something that just lurks around waiting to jump into some kids lungs. Smoke settles. What makes it a problem is when someone smokes inside, or when they smoke right next to someone that doesn’t want to smoke. That is called being an asshole.
Secondhand smoke is an issue of responsibility. If people can be taught to drink responsibly, then people can be taught to smoke responsibly.
I wasn’t even being remotely equitable in how I feel about one or the other.
So lemme clear the air, so-to-speak:
Being homeless should never be treated negatively, and we should help people overcome it in every way possible (housing first).
Secondhand smoke is a choice that a smoker makes, a choice that literally affects others in every negative conceivable way, and we should make life harder and harder for smokers. (Even harder for the manufacturers)
Smokers should be ostracized like we did with COVIDiots; they shouldn’t get to be in public spaces when smoking; they should be isolated until the smoking is over; any lingering stench should be scoured from them before they’re reintroduced to the public.
Don’t even think to get my words twisted. We treat the homeless like we SHOULD treat smokers.
I’m not twisting your words. You’re saying we should shame smokers the way we do homeless people, because you for some reason are too dumb to see the hypocrisy.
Shaming homeless people doesn’t work. Shaming smokers will also not work. You are just wrong, no amount of explanation will justify it.
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