Someone patent this so we can sue anyone who tries this shit

Found the answer to this here

Same reasons as EU, Russia, and China. Global economic/military partners rather than global competition/enemies.

Why would anyone in a military conflict ally with the US anymore if all it takes is a couple corrupt dipshits in Congress to leave them all completely defenseless during their time of need.

And if they do have the latter, then pretending everything is great rather than acknowledging it and taking steps to address it is a great way to make it worse.

Soon we’ll have grifters and convicted felons on that list

I’m not arguing nicotine isn’t addictive. It’s the whole basis of why there’s good reason to believe people woule just smoke more to get their fix, and all the harm that comes with the added tar consumption that would involve.

It also wouldn’t be the first time a political party proposed a poorly thought out policy that sounds good on paper but doesn’t help in practice. If there is some accompanying successful medical study that motivated such a policy then I can be convinced otherwise, but until then let’s stop pretending these doubts are not obvious and reasonable.

No I literally think they should ban them instead of playing stupid games like taking most of the nicotine out and hoping people make the healthier decision vs the more destructive one of smoking more.

Whether nicotine reduction would even lead to a net reduction in harm is the actual hypothetical here, and there are reasons to believe it wouldn’t, which is all I’m pointing out. It just sounds like a shitty policy, regardless of ideology.

If the idea is reducing it to the point where smokers don’t think it’s worth it to smoke anymore, then just ban them. Otherwise you absolutely will have people who will smoke 3-4x more to get their original fix. Or they’ll take deeper draws and hold it longer like people did when lights were introduced (there were studies on this)

Long overdue. As more nations backslide the collective power of the EU will diminish since everyone will be more and more incentived to extort or block new laws than to cooperate and act as partners. Hungary has made this plainly obvious in the case of EU. Turkey in the case of NATO. Russia in the case of UN. Time to wake up. If you don’t like it you can leave.

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It’s not whataboutism, both are wrong.

Yes please also stop justifying genocide by disagreeing with a basic statement like “HAMAS is also a problem”