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Spin Zone => Spin Zone => Topic started by: President-Elect Bob Noel on April 11, 2020, 08:03:00 AM

Title: COVID-19 and smoking
Post by: President-Elect Bob Noel on April 11, 2020, 08:03:00 AM
Apparently smoking increases the probabilty of severe illness resulting from a COVID-19 infection.

So, why hasn't anyone banned smoking?
Title: Re: COVID-19 and smoking
Post by: Lucifer on April 11, 2020, 08:08:33 AM
Apparently smoking increases the probabilty of severe illness resulting from a COVID-19 infection.

So, why hasn't anyone banned smoking?

Tobacco lobby
Title: Re: COVID-19 and smoking
Post by: President in Exile YOLT on April 11, 2020, 08:52:29 AM
Also being on ACE inhibitors, which is a huge part of the population.
Title: Re: COVID-19 and smoking
Post by: Anthony on April 11, 2020, 08:53:57 AM
But State Governments and the MEDIA nationwide are promoting and legalizing smoking Marijuana as some type of panacea for the world's ills.   >:(
Title: Re: COVID-19 and smoking
Post by: Rush on April 11, 2020, 09:37:09 AM
As does drinking, doing drugs, being fat, being old, having kidney or liver disease etc etc etc etc.
Title: Re: COVID-19 and smoking
Post by: President in Exile YOLT on April 11, 2020, 10:07:00 AM
The "latest" is that this is affecting mostly "black and brown" people.

So carrying that to the expected "conclusion", Trump wants to put the country back to work because he's a racist.  :o
Title: Re: COVID-19 and smoking
Post by: Anthony on April 11, 2020, 10:12:36 AM
The "latest" is that this is affecting mostly "black and brown" people.

So carrying that to the expected "conclusion", Trump wants to put the country back to work because he's a racist.  :o

That narrative, like with the Green New Deal, is to justify all the $$$ going to social justice programs for Blacks and Illegal Aliens 
Title: Re: COVID-19 and smoking
Post by: bflynn on April 11, 2020, 12:21:53 PM
Because we don’t want the government being our nanny?  It is not our job to decide what constitutes harm for anyone else. If you ask any smoker, they will 100% acknowledge that smoking is bad and most will say, they still don’t want to quit.

Are you doing more harm to them by forcing them to forgo something they enjoy just because it hurts them?  Just maybe their value are different than theirs and the immediate enjoyment is more important.
Title: Re: COVID-19 and smoking
Post by: President-Elect Bob Noel on April 11, 2020, 12:27:48 PM
Because we don’t want the government being our nanny?  ...

The aversion to wanting the government to be our nanny is, at best, inconsistent and haphazard.