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>Why shouldn’t an adult have the freedom to smoke and put themselves at high risk of lung cancer? More than 2/3 of smokers say they want to quit [1]. What kind
by thrwy_918 5y ago
>Why shouldn’t an adult have the freedom to smoke and put themselves at high risk of lung cancer?
More than 2/3 of smokers say they want to quit [1]. What kind of freedom is it to be addicted to a deadly product, to want to stop using it but to be unable to do so?
At a certain point, legally preventing people from becoming addicted in the first place protects freedom more than allowing people to become addicted to something deadly.
[1] https://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/data_statistics/fact_sheets/cessation/smoking-cessation-fast-facts/index.html
- unmole 5y ago> More than 2/3 of smokers say they want to quit. I would assume a larger portion of obese people say they want to lose weight. Should we ban sugar too?
- Jensson 5y agoSugar is natural, so many animals live on sugar, it is just a quick cheap energy storage medium so you find it in most plants and milk produced by animals. The only unnatural and bad part about modern sugar consumption is how much of it we are able to distil and consume. Also people could live on sugar 50 years ago as well, but people weren't fat then. However smoking still killed a ton of people even 50 years ago when they lived a healthier lifestyle, smoking is just plain bad, sugar isn't.
- unmole 5y agoTobacco is plant. The processing of tobacco doesn't make it any less natural than sugar. We have known that type 2 diabetes is triggered by obesity for more than 1500 years. It's no surprise that the earliest records are from India, where sugar processing was invented. Tobacco smoking is bad. But only a small fraction of smokers actually die from smoking.