• Luna@lemdro.id
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    9 months ago

    Smoking. It’s literally a drug and causes lots of health issues like increased lung cancer risk, but the worst part is that if someone smokes near you then you also inhale some of the toxins even if you yourself don’t smoke. And in my country it’s common to see people smoking on the streets. Combine this with air pollution and yikes

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        9 months ago

        Reality proves enough that forbidding drugs doesn’t work though, it just creates a lot of other problems. Forbidding some parts of it like ads about them, selling to minors etc do have effect however

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      9 months ago

      Rather than downvoting, I’d like to ask why you think all forms of alcohol for consumption should be illegal

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        9 months ago

        Probably because they’re basically poison that has to be filtered out and fucks up your liver and kidneys.

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          9 months ago

          Ok, but there are plenty of other items that that do that as well. It’s not a call out of “all drugs, including tobacco and alcohol”. It’s not a callout of microplastics. So there’s something specific to alcohol.

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            9 months ago

            So there’s something specific to alcohol.

            Being widespread. One bad set of laws in bad place in bad time (propination laws in eastern Europe in XVIII-XIX century) caused untold suffering and is keenly felt to this day, showing how easily hundreds of millions of people can be fucked up by poisonous commodity.

            I’m not for entirely banning alcohol, but only because it would be rather futile, but for restrictions in its selling and far going educational campaigns to finally get rid of it - and it is possible, even if not entirely, looking at the decline of consumption of other poison, tobacco.

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    9 months ago

    Capitalism

    EDIT: also i read the other comments and hilarious amount of other things mentioned also boils down to “capitalism” or their illegalisation would basically needed for capitalism to be outlawed too.