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Originally Posted by StrongInTheArm
Smoking kills, right!?!
So why have cigarette companies been allowed to continue to trade?
The number of smokers in the developed world may be dropping but they are increasing in third world countries; among those least able to afford it at that. Why do you think that is?
Don't get me wrong I'm all for the right to choose and taking responsibility for one's self. But isn't allowing these companies to trade tantamount to endorsing murder. If Western governments want to set the right example why not ban these companies from manufacturing cigarettes?
Please someone get these stupid ideas out of my head!  |
SITA dude, it gets worse than that.
Countries like ours is heavily involved in selling them to third world countries and promoting it...
I guess if everyone in the UK stopped smoking, the government would pull taxes from elsewhere.... Though that said, my guess is that there is more spent on trying to treat people with smoking relating diseases in hospital.