• @[email protected]
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    3411 months ago

    It is wrong to sell addictive substances to addicts.
    Sure, adults have the right to smoke if they want. They are, of course, adults. But that doesn’t make it okay for tobacco companies to advertise harmful and addictive substances to anyone, least of all the people who are already addicted.

    • @[email protected]
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      811 months ago

      Sure, adults have the right to smoke if they want

      Even if it forces everyone in the vicinity to inhale that crap? Smoking has one distinct feature in that it harms not just the user, but everyone around as well.

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      -111 months ago

      Being an addict does not make a person an invalid. An addict is still an adult capable of consenting.

      • @x4740N
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        411 months ago

        Addicts are not in proper mental capacity to make an informed decision especially when in a state of withdrawl