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A good point raised on the stupid.ca site
| quote: | I was back in Canada this past weekend in order to visit some people, and made an interesting observation. In all the rhetoric and anti-advertising, there is never any mention of snuff or chewing tobacco. Obviously, being a person with inquisitive nature, I sat down and pondered this observation, and realized how this is a perfect example (and potentially proof) that the movement is, in essence, a crusade.
As I pointed out, nowhere is there mention made of snuff or chewing tobacco, two killers in the family of tobacco products. An argument could be made that these two products are more hazardous than smoking to those that use them, but it really is irrelevant, as they are still tobacco products intended for human consumption, and are therefore, by their very nature, dangerous. But nowhere in Canada, amongst the slew of anti-smoker rhetoric could I find ANYTHING about snuff or chewing tobacco.
But what does this mean? Well, I would assert that this is more than it seems at first. To me, after hours of careful pondering, it means that the movement is not for the health and well-being of people, or even for the prevention of tobacco use. It means that someone seemingly arbitrarily picked smokers as a group that is easy to discriminate against, and decided they would take up a crusade against it. This crusade isn't even well thought out. It doesn't include all types of tobacco, just cigarettes, and leaves out other killers in our society. If the group of people who are so concerned with our health as a whole that they tax smokers, practically to death, for partaking in an enjoyable activity, actually cared for the health and well-being of those people, they would have long ago taken up a campaign against it. My proof? Read On.
Perhaps the best example of a government who can at least appear to care is the United Kingdom government. Why, you ask? They have BANNED tobacco products intended for oral and nasal consumption. Granted, their tax rates on cigarettes are ridiculous, but at least they have taken the measures to ban these products, and look as though they care about the health of their citizens.
This crusade isn't even about tobacco, its about society's disdain for smokers. A product that is perfectly legal, and from which the government recieves an astounding amout of tax money, is simply being trashed as being evil, manupulative, and essentially any other negative adjective you can think of, because some MP decided they would compile a bunch of stats against it. They say the industry is so evil, and don't even include all of the harmful products produced by the industry. But I will even go further in saying that this whole thing might not have anything to do with what we think its about. This might be some sort of sick psychological experiment into how far people will go in condemning one another based on their lifestyles.
It seems there is some sort of Freudian complex at work in the subconscious minds of those in power. They have discluded certain deadly products, related to cigarettes, perhaps intentionally, perhaps unintentionally. But all this rhetoric, all these stats, this site, everything, is just the government pretending to care, sending countless people on crusades in the process, in order to tax you smokers to death.
SO, in summary, this is not for the well-being of the citizens, it is merely a ploy for the tax revenue, and the government does not care about your health, smoker or non-smoker.
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| quote: | Originally posted by jester
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