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My suspicion is that alcohol is mind-altering in ways smoking is not, and has a large effect on social interactions in business and romance and coping with the drudgery of daily life.

Take away smoking from the next generation and they move to caffeine or vapes. Take away alcohol and there are revolutions and religious extremist revivals.



Taking away smoking still solves the secondhand smoke issue.


Not the second-hand vape issue though.

Those of us who don't smoke or vape can smell that shit a couple of hundred metres away.


Those of us who don't drive can smell the exhaust a couple hundred meters away, too.


Sounds like you're using the wrong fuel. If we'd switched all the petrol cars over to propane instead of having "scrappage schemes" to sell people new "cleaner greener diesels" - and you see how that worked out - then we'd have pristine fresh air in our cities now.

But that doesn't sell nearly enough debt.


You should have smelled the bathroom here an hour ago. They ought to ban chipotle for the same reason. Secondhand chipotle is the worst.


> chipotle

Have you considered just eating food?


Has everybody in the world considered just not vaping?

Like secondhand vapor, we can't control other people's secondhand chipotle unless we ban chipotle.

And since I don't like the smell, we've got to ban both.


Secondhand smoke is such a small effect with current levels of smoking and smoking laws that it is hard to even discern data about it.


Second hand smoke is a large (almost overwhelming) factor in SIDS. Also for people who don't smoke, it smells f--king disgusting. Nobody wants to deal with that in their life.


Citation needed


Americans tried to ban alcohol in the 20s, ended up propping up the organised crime.

The they later enacted the War on Drugs. They still pump billions into cartels and the federal forces.




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