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Old 01-31-2008, 01:59 PM   #131 (permalink)
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I agree,there is a big warning label on the box. But it's still very harmful and it should be illegal.

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If it ever was illegal to sell and light up cigarettes, certainly there would be a black market. Right now, it seems that the Chinese leads the world in smokers.
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I have no idea but I think if the government stopped treating addicts like criminals and do what I suggested there would be a much higher percentage of addicts getting of off drugs and getting jobs.

I don't ever see it happening though because the government makes to much revenue from drugs just like they do tobacco and alcohol. Actually tobacco with nicotine is the most addictive drug in the world and the government allows it to be sold. They make billions in taxes from cigarettes then make billions when people get sick from it.
Many countries in Europe are adopting that approach - providing treatment for drug addicts instead of punishing them with jail - including Portugal

Portugal's Drug Users Go To Experts' Panel, Not Jail - New York Times

For some people drug addiction is an involuntary illness, like diabetes, and not the result of a character defect or a lack of self-discipline.
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If it ever was illegal to sell and light up cigarettes, certainly there would be a black market. Right now, it seems that the Chinese leads the world in smokers.
Curiosity bids me wonder then, which country leads the world in lung cancer?

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Curiosity bids me wonder then, which country leads the world in lung cancer?

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Well I wouldn't be surprised if it is the Chinese. They have to clean up the air prior to this year's Summer Olympics. The Chinese, for the kind of government they have, should have enough sense to ban cigarettes, so much to the dismay of their smokers. But that will not happen.
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Many countries in Europe are adopting that approach - providing treatment for drug addicts instead of punishing them with jail - including Portugal

Portugal's Drug Users Go To Experts' Panel, Not Jail - New York Times

For some people drug addiction is an involuntary illness, like diabetes, and not the result of a character defect or a lack of self-discipline.
Like zoophilia?

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Like zoophilia?

I just had to...My bad. I withdraw the question.
You are in a whimsical mood!

Everybody knows zoophilia is a character defect but homosexuality is a normal abnormality.

But enough of that
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You are in a whimsical mood!

Everybody knows zoophilia is a character defect but homosexuality is a normal abnormality.

But enough of that
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You are in a whimsical mood!
Oh no!!! I just used the word "whimsy" on a post!!! And then I come over here to this thread, and see you, Gary, used a form of the same word!!!

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Yes I am so very thankful for the crumbs the government gives me thats left over after they send billions of dollars to other countries.

Thank you so very much George Bush,you dick head.
Why don't you thank the people who abuse the system!!!! Like the idiots that show up to the ER for a sore throat because they receive medicaid!!!!!!!! It is assholes like those that cost the system valuable dollars!!!! Wasted care on people who should be taken out back and shot, or given a swift kick in the ass!!!

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I want our government to take care of our own backyard before they take care of other countries backyards.
Here is a novel idea, instead asking the government to take care of you, why don't you take care of yourself. If you can't then anything the government gives you is nothing more than benevolence and you should thank them for what you do get, and if you cannot be thankful, then perhaps you should not be receiving anything!

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