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		tester756 on Sept 17, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Geographic ‘hot spots’ for cigarette and firearm d... This isn't effectively freedom. It's just seemingly freedom. In the end people end up with an addiction and aren't able to release themselves from it, thus it isn't freedom for them. This logic is simple and coherent.

CapstanRoller on Sept 18, 2023 [–]

By that logic we should ban anything remotely pleasurable.

tester756 on Sept 18, 2023 | [–]

No, because usually other pleasurable things do not harm other like smoking does.

I wouldnt be smoking hater if it had no impact on me.

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