New UK Smoking Ban

[Wombat_smokes]

I just learned about this smoking ban. So many things wrong with a blanket ban that will completely destroy all tobacco sources in the UK. Informed consent regarding the health risks that tobacco use causes would be far better. I know tobacco can be harmful, but I choose to accept that. It is habit forming, just like candy, alcohol, or coffee. I choose to make this habit part of my relaxation rituals.

 

[vktr]

Probably a right thing to do as nicotine is a hard drug to quit. Social part of smoking or vaping becomes irrelevant in a bigger picture. You won't miss it if you haven't tried it, right? But they tried to ban alcohol too, now making shitloads of money out of it.

 

[The Haroo ln]

Yeah i live in the UK and atm everything here Sucks ass. Excuse the language! A lot of brits have denounced their british citizenship and moved to the likes of dubai because of how things are here with the economy, inflation, tax and absolutely ridiculous prime ministers and secretary's trying to bring in new garbage laws such as the smoking ban. Its heading for another big recession/credit crunch very soon. How the hell these laws are passed in parliament is beyond me. I get that smoking causes forms of harm/disease but every smoker knows exactly what they are getting into. It should be a personal choice as to whether you quit or you carry on smoking. You can't force people into it. It wouldn't suprise me if they move tobacco into a class C or B drug soon.

 

[StoneCarver]

I know tobacco can be harmful, but I choose to accept that.

Imo, anything that provides pleasure is outweighed by the negative aspects. Take going going on holiday for example. You spend a bunch of money and time on travel for a few days of hanging out somewhere. You go for a swim in the ocean and get stung by jellyfish. You go on a hike and get blisters on your feet or pull a muscle. Get sunburned at the beach. Have a few moments of pleasure from having sex only to suffer 20 years of raising a rebellious brat. Drink too much alcohol then vomit and be hungover the whole next day. Pleasure is fleeting; suffering is more long term. Pleasure is hard to obtain; suffering hunts us down. I don't find anything to be exempt. People need to be realistic. Light one up for me. I'll be thinking of y'all and doing the same.

Honestly though, I suffer more negative aspects of smoke inhalation when I run my woodstove in winter. No matter how careful I am when I open the door of the woodstove, inevitably, I get some smoke in my house and it hurts my sinuses and lungs far more than any smoking of tobacco I do. It doesn't even take a visible amount of smoke from the woodstove to bother me. We can only imagine how much respiratory damage people suffer from daily cooking over a wood fire which many people continue to do in many parts of the world. What are we going to do? Ban cooking over wood fires?