Your elected leaders and tax dollars go toward a nanny state that wants to tell you what you cannot do simply because other people are screwing up in many ways, and if the politicians pick the easy problems instead of the hard ones, they can get re-elected because they made an appearance of doing something while doing nothing that they can actually fail at.
The World Health Organization has designated May 31 as World No Tobacco Day, apparently speaking in pidgin language for maximum inclusivity. They want you to believe that our problems are mostly solved and so tobacco is a huge issue:
Tobacco use kills more than 7 million people every year and costs households and governments over US$ 1.4 trillion through healthcare expenditure and lost productivity.
“Tobacco threatens us all,” says WHO Director-General Dr Margaret Chan. “Tobacco exacerbates poverty, reduces economic productivity, contributes to poor household food choices, and pollutes indoor air.”
Dr Chan adds: “But by taking robust tobacco control measures, governments can safeguard their countries’ futures by protecting tobacco users and non-users from these deadly products, generating revenues to fund health and other social services, and saving their environments from the ravages tobacco causes.”
This is a scapegoat. When someone is 400 lbs, moves twice a day between desk job and sofa, eats nothing but cheeseburgers (“burg”) and donuts (“freedom bread”), and also happens to smoke two packs of menthols a day, the only easy scapegoat is the tobacco. Only some people use tobacco, but it seems that everyone else is obese, eating junk food and not exercising while engaging in death-inducing commonplace habits that lower life expectancy while spreading misery and existential trauma.
But, we cannot blame jobs, fast food or not exercising. Too many people rely on those. So we blame smoking instead, which brings joy to many with no reduced length of life, but in the name of the few who die, our politicians strap on their armor, call to Sancho Panza, and ride forth on a crusade against the symbolic problem, solely so they can conceal the actual far bigger problems.
Fully fed up with this, a handful of tobacco activists launched “World Smoke Tobacco Day,” a protest through sardonic critique that points out that in a world where most people are miserable, items like tobacco and alcohol do more good than harm. Not that democracy will listen, but the more voices we raise, the less our leaders have control of the narrative and the more likely their imminent fall becomes.
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Can we add ‘cars’ to the list? They produce more than 1.5 ‘Manchester events’ per week in the UK alone but nobody was ever considered a terrorist for intentionally or competence-lessly running his car over someone else.
Go shove a branch up your ass you canine fucker
Ryan has extreme personal issues with tobacco……
https://www.facebook.com/ryan.ebinger
He looks like he got raped as a toddler
well if anything the stuffed animals and the jap nonsense will protect him from the big bad cigarettes
Hand him a Monchichi. Itll stop him from assaulting his mother.
This is Daniel’s least logical article yet.
Nobody is going to get re-elected off of No Tobacco Day.
Tobacco is NOT a scapegoat. It is an actually destructive activity that DOES overwhelmingly contribute to disease and death.
Don’t pretend that society ignores obesity, non-exercise, and shitty diet, and cruelly pursues poor tobacco. Nobody is saying that tobacco is the only lifestyle problem, you dummy.
I smoked a pack a day of menthols; quit 7 years ago. Life is wayyyy better without the poison coursing through my blood at all times, enslaved to craving for another. Smoking is stupid. I am less miserable since I quit.
Niggas interested in Metal values of vir, self-respect, independence, POWER should definitely conquer smoking. And not characterise it as a necessity for the poor pitiable victims of modernity.
This is a classic example of “symbolic politics”: It’s popular among influential people, people negatively affected by it are either young or poor, the actual effects – if any – won’t be known for dozens of years and it’s free of cost. Better actually: It can be used to justify tax hikes.
You are going to die. And no effort spent on regulating other people’s lifes in line with this or that paranoid fear you happen to entertain will save you.
If you think you are a person with an inbred and inconquerable substance abuse problem, you ought to know what you’re talking about. And this surely sounds miserable. But it doesn’t necessarily extend to others.
It clearly was a conquerable substance-abuse problem, bud. I’m 7 years free, remember?
Whether you support or disdain No Tobacco Day, smoking of cigarettes IS an actually destructive activity that DOES overwhelmingly contribute to disease and death. This isn’t a ‘paranoid fear’. The science is there. You know this. Some day, maybe when you’re in mid-adulthood, you’ll value this over rebellion.
These young and poor people of which you speak? They can’t figure it out, so taxation creates a disincentive to the very behaviour which will later cost us in uninsured medical bills for emphysema and heart failure ‘n shit.
I was referring to your description of the poor, helpless addict being controlled by forces beyond his power. If that was your reason for smoking, then, well, it was your reason. Reportedly, such people exist.
Collecting numbers in order to “prove” a pre-existing standpoint is not science. Eg, some years ago, some people from a German university wanted to “prove” that smoking causes cognitive impairments. Unfortunately, their intial numbers wouldn’t obey. They then simply chose to drop all women from their statistic – as everybody knows, women are very strange and not real people, anyway, so shurely, this was totally justified – and voila, est demonstrandum.
Treating tobacco use as a monolithic, featureless choice that one is either in a state of DOING or NOT DOING is just ignorance. This kind of extreme aversion to nuance and detail can result in grievous failures like misattributing DMU articles.
It’s not Daniel.
Yes it is. Brett and Daniel are the same person you idiot.
I don’t think Niggas are interested in Metal to begin with
‘nigga’ means ‘guy’ or ‘dude’.
You’ve gotta know this.
Metal has always glorified Drugs and Alcohol, you have to know this…..
Tobacco, Drugs, and Alcohol have been part and parcel of Metal music since it’s inception, you gotta know this…..
Not to mention that drugs are accepted in many cultures. The question is which drugs, and why does our “culture” (modernity/globalism) have trouble using them correctly?
These citizens are such brats that when I suggest something sane like “let people grow their own weed, but not sell it,” objections come flying from all sides.
You cannot make idiots into wise men. Democracy and consumerism will never work, for sure, but neither will any culture based on equality.
While it’s a poor choice to smell like recently burned ass, I support your right to do so. I’ll vape all day as usual in an act of slacktivism because they’re after that even more so than cigarettes given the constant smear campaigns & INSANE (80% & up) tax hikes taking place around the country. Read up on Pennsylvania’s 40% floor tax which taxes inventory every year even if it sits unsold at a rate of 40% of the retail (not wholesale) value. If someone skirts the tax by buying online, the gov’t will come after you personally…which could mean they are checking people’s purchase records or just have some faggot vape police that will check for your tax stamp if they see you with it.
Either way if I still smoked or vape, I’ll dodge their taxes & do it anywhere I like. If they ban it, I know how to procure the ingredients & make the juice/coils/wick so that’s a non-issue (a half retarded monkey can do it so it’s not even that good of a self inflicted pat on the back).
Since we live in a corpulent & compliant nation, saying “fuck you I’ll do what I please” is about as good as it’s gonna get as far as retaliation for unjust infringements/taxation.
I can totally support this! Stupid government trying to tell me what to do! I’m an individual I can do what I want! Next thing you know, they are going to take away my right to eat my own shit in public! Sure it makes me and the people around me sick, but it is my right and no government can tell me what to do! This is ‘Murcia damnit! Except I smoke cigars, cigs are for pussies.
U don’t have that right
Tobacco is a shit-tier drug tho