• Teddybearalleymngr@lemm.ee
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    9 months ago

    Not a smoker or wannabe one but if someone is just one year behind in their age, they’ll never be able to legally smoke with this setup.

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    9 months ago

    Because people have been more and more conditioned to obey year after year. To be absolute pushovers who never fight against the grain, never question groupthink, etc. Grandfathering the criminalization (using violent enforcement) of something like smoking a cigarette is a shining example of what’s to come.

      • cosecantphi [he/him]@hexbear.net
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        9 months ago

        Not defending cigarette companies, but it really actually does suck that meth is illegal in all 50 states. The United States has the world’s largest prison population, it’s the most authoritarian country on the planet, and that is heavily facilitated by throwing people into prison for using drugs.