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cigarrettes and tobacco in general are the scapegoat for a lot of people.
More people in this country die from either health complications of alcohol consumption or stupidity following alcohol consumption.
and lately, more people are dying from disease caused by a steady diet iof processed food. people who only eat fast food, drink only sodas, etc., are flodding the healthcare system with disesed bodies. kidney failure, and dialysis treatments, are rising exponentially and they are not due to cigarrettes.
while the usa govt. "forces" cig makers to advertise public service ads decrying tobacco and asking people not to smoke, they also give massive kickbacks and tax breaks to the same tobbacco companies to increase their market share in developing nations in south america, asia, and africa, where the smoking rate has increased every year.
it is a hypocritical system, and only serves to maintain the tobacco companies $$$ (and the massive $$$ contributions those companies give to both political parties) while pretending to be doing "good" for the people of the usa.
It is LEGAL to buy tobacco. It is LEGAL to smoke tobacco. Yet it is hammered into children's impressionable minds that cigs are evil.l that smokers are BAD PEOPLE, that one should disrespect one's parents if they chose to have a smoke.
the human mind can only take so much bullshit before it compartmentaliezes itself into schizophrenia.
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