Quote Originally Posted by TRAIN69:
This could be your worst post yet.
Cigarettes are a necessity? That is laughable. How many nicotine users need rehab? What they need is 2 days without a cig and they are fine. The after cravings have to do with habit and oral fixations.
Make it "harder to quit". So you're saying with a little willpower and effort it is possible.....
And then, the mother of all the crazy things you have ever typed......
This is the government taking responsibility
So, the 3/4 people that dont smoke have to pay higher premiums due to the fact that 25% of people kept doing something they knew was killing them? Seems fair.
When do people have to take responsibilty for their own actions? Why is it always someone elses fault? Be it tabacco companies or racist white people. How come their a set of rules I have to live by, but other get away with things because the are stupid or weak, or both. Darwin had a theory about this and Obama Care is trying to end survival of the fittest.....
Come on Scal, even you cant be that naive.....can you?
Again, like I said to the OP, who the hell are you to speak to someone's addiction and what they can do about it?
Again, who's shared responsibility is it sheep? And make no mistake, you are a sheep baaaaing the same 'personal responsibility' bullshit absolving the companies and government who created the problem in the first place.
It's people like you and the OP who are on your knees before big corporations because they "create jobs" but when they destroy lives, intentionally adding carcinogens to their product proven to KILL, intentionally adding higher and higher levels of nicotine proven to addict, your response is "you shouldn't have chosen to smoke" when most smokers are targeted as high schoolers and young adults. Why? Because those are the easiest targets. Those are the groups with the poorest impulse control.
So one mistake to smoke a pack of cigarettes essentially hooks you for life because the tobacco companies intentionally add brain altering chemicals to get you to buy and buy and buy and smoke and smoke and your reponse is "your fault! I quit and that means you can!" Saying NOTHING to the companies who created the problem or the complicit government.
This is why this country gets laughed it. And I've talked to many foreigners who get quite a kick out of the way we conduct ourselves. The morons within cannabalize eachother.
Get off your knees chumps...