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Excellent post!
And further to the soldier suicide issue, to stop them smoking would take away one of few releases a soldier in the field has, possibly leading to more suicides.
Take it from a smoker -- sometimes a cigarette is the only thing that makes life sufferable!
I was wondering how this issue would play out in Europe. When I visited the U.K. in '99 there was still smoking everywhere, and I remember taking note of the sharp contrast with the U.S., where smoking laws were already much more progressive than anywhere else. Now Ireland has gone even further than the U.S., and the U.K. may be next. You're correct that it's nanny-statism. Very irritating.
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Dyl_Pickle
on February 16, 2006 at 5:49 PM
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We have these draconian laws here and I love them. It will be 11 years this
summer that I am free of this filthy habit. I say with all my experiences quitting addictive substances, that this is the hardest, bar non.
It took almost thirteen years of trying to quit. I switched to pot. Pot didn't take care of the cravings for nicotine but it satisfied the craving for the delivery method, smoking.
To give up smoking pot is nothing at all. The pleasant high is what I miss. This nice feeling with only the tiniest of side effects, allowing for a complete engagement of faculties, but pleasantly euphoric, anti depressant and full creative enhancement is an ideal recreational drug. It would replace alcohol for the next generation, as it is, in a flash. To be an almost totally non-health risk, a person must only learn to ingest it. When people tell you that it impairs you, they are lying. It has never been proven by real science.
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Bud-Oracle
on February 16, 2006 at 4:45 PM
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