• TranscendentalEmpire@lemmy.today
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    2 days ago

    Let the kids smoke, maybe enough of them will get asthma and will be able to dodge the draft.

    I mean I don’t think kids should actually smoke, but I always find it funny that on some things governments are willing to move heaven and earth for the sake of the children…and then turn a blind eye to things like global warming and war. Like these are also bad for the children my dudes.

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      1 day ago

      It’s not about the children, as usual. It’s big pharma and big tobacco wanting to remove the biggest threat to their chantix and cigarettes scheme.

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      2 days ago

      Yeah but curbing climate change doesn’t let the government strip people’s privacy and bodily autonomy rights away.

      ETA: No I don’t think kids should smoke either, and the warnings are good. It’s the willful abuse of “think of the children” by lawmakers I’m addressing.