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The word "freedom" does not appear in the article. The loss of freedom from a smoking ban should at least be acknowledged. Trying to ban smoking will create a b
by Bostonian 3y ago
The word "freedom" does not appear in the article. The loss of freedom from a smoking ban should at least be acknowledged. Trying to ban smoking will create a black market whose products may be more dangerous than the current ones. Eric Garner died after an arrest for selling single cigarettes from packs without tax stamps. Bans don't enforce themselves. Do we want police going after people selling cigarettes?
- dollarflame 3y agoI tend to agree. You at least have to talk about the loss of freedom. Moreover on a practical level, you'd have to ban smoking in the entire hemisphere, and even then, you'd get smugglers bringing it in from the EU and Asia.
- rhelz 3y agoNow that marijuana is legal, can we at least smoke that?
- delichon 3y ago> Do we want police going after people selling cigarettes? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Eric_Garner https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Eric_Garner > NYPD officers approached Garner on July 17 [2014] on suspicion of selling single cigarettes from packs without tax stamps. No, we don't want more of that.
- treadmill 3y ago> died after an arrest This is such a weird way to phrase it. He was murdered by a police officer who choked him to death.