RE: Australia bans tobacco branding
April 30, 2010 at 8:54 pm
(This post was last modified: April 30, 2010 at 9:01 pm by KichigaiNeko.)
(April 30, 2010 at 7:49 pm)padraic Wrote: @Min
Oh dear,that's the kind of comment I'd expect from Pippy. Please tell me you were taking the piss.
The average time spent in a nursing home before death is 5 years.
People who do not die from some smoking-related disease may have decades more of productive life.
Smokers are also susceptible to a range of ailments ranging from bronchitis to diabetes,which cost billions in treatment and lost production.
Using your logic,obesity should be ignored.
I guess this is something about which we will need to agree to differ.
That's a whole lot of assumptions pad and something a fundie would put forward as fact.
I'm afraid Min is on the right track. Smokers are no more susceptible to lung conditions than any other person on the planet (thanks to our Industry and Govts.) Your "lost production" is taken up also with 'my dog died', my kids need medical care, 'my husband left me' add nauseum. Like speeding, smoking is an emotional trigger used by govts. to tax the population more. Just look at the price hikes for electricity and water and gas here is Aus. 'Global warming' was used to bring in higher taxes on the environmental fundies...nut jobs backed it to the hilt.
Obesity is a very serious thing and I would hazard a guess that in the end it will be found that it is as 'bad' as the addiction to smoking. The thing that gets me is all of these "illnesses" are a response to something going wrong within society. Most of my obese friends don't smoke and never have, the rest have quit and are getting more obese. Go figure?? The stats are not delivering the results that is out in the community.
If nothing else, 'Society' is ruled by the emotional minority (?) fundies mostly.
Wake up and smell der Houmous!! Humans are so caught up with this desperate NEED to hang on (which is part of an addiction) 'society' makes it a 'crime' if you get ill and die. i can only find such non-sensical notions within religion that will feel threatened if one of their number die then they are one LESS in their strength. Tribal dynamics are an interesting thing nes pas??
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