Health experts say axing plan to block sales of tobacco products to next generation will cost thousands of lives

  • XbSuper
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    -31 year ago

    Seems like a good thing to me. Let people decide for themselves, it’s not the government’s job to tell them what they can and can’t put in their body.

    • @UsernameIsTooLon
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      51 year ago

      It literally is the government’s job. That’s the whole point of the FDA.

      • @[email protected]
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        31 year ago

        I think they’re making a statement about the proper role of goverment, not what it currently does.

        And in NZ it’s the Ministry of Health.

      • XbSuper
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        21 year ago

        FDA’s job is to tell corporations what they can and can’t put in your body. You’re still welcome to seek out those poisons and consume them. Cigarettes should be no different.

    • @[email protected]
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      51 year ago

      Agree with this. All the pro weed and pro other drug people need to realize they are making the opposite argument to support banning smoking. All substances carry some intrinsic risk and the externalities must be managed, but its up to consenting adults to make their own choices about what they will consume.

      • XbSuper
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        11 year ago

        To maintain infrastructure.

          • XbSuper
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            01 year ago

            Yes, paid for by the exorbitant taxes on cigarettes.

              • XbSuper
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                01 year ago

                I think you missed something. Banning cigarettes takes money away from healthcare, it doesn’t put more into it.

                Smokers wind up paying almost 10x what they cost the system over their lives. Banning that income will only make things worse.

                  • XbSuper
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                    01 year ago

                    Except they also have to step on your rights, and body autonomy in order to do so.

                    Let me aak you this as well… Do you support the war on drugs?