Don’t worry. You’ll have a fleet over every neighborhood protracting the public trust.

And you’re basing the world ln your own limited information microcosm biases.

“Relatively uncommon” is your uncorroborated bullshit in case you didn’t realize it.

So you’re saying it’s not bullshit… just not your take. I assure you, there are many I know personally who have been trying to quit for decades on and off with little success. This is not a normal craving like cake. For such an expensive addiction, it’s borderline theft. Some dumb 13yr old gets tricked into trying one and over the course of the next 20yrs spends more money on cigarettes than anything else in their life…. Gtfo if you think that’s normal.

Meanwhile one of my friend smokes and never gets hit with craving. It’s case by case.

Mercenary mindset. No snowflake feels responsible for the avalanche.

My right to swing my bat ends at your face. There is an interface where personal freedoms need to be restricted unless you don’t mind living in fear 24/7.

Your take is very absolutist. If you’ve never smoked a cigarette, you might not realize how powerful the pull is. It’s not a normal craving. It takes over every free thought when it hits. It changes your brain in specific areas identifiable on brain scans. This shit is sugar coated poison.

Do you drive the speed limit? It protects others and future generations. Life would have been a lot healthier if someone hadn’t introduced that first cigarette to you 20yrs ago, and you would never have felt the loss.

We care about people, even if they hurt themselves (and tax dollars in future healthcare). Most people are better off never starting. It’s like trying to stop someone from hang gliding into a volcano. Sure it’s fun… but most people shouldn’t do it.

I would rest easier knowing there is less of it around for kids to get peer pressured into locking themselves to it.

Put the heroin back on the convenience shelf while you’re at it. Tricked into trying it? Too bad… you’re a grown adult and now your life is fucked.

Not as extreme, but some substances need more thought before unleashing them onto the pubic, if ever.

Be careful with Mamdani. He’s placed a few Israeli supporters in positions. I want to believe he won organically, but you never know. Maybe they were placed there due to political games he was forced to play, but still double take territory.