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Oh fuck you with the empathy bullshit. You're advocating for a harmful habit that has been pushed on people due to its addictive nature. You're advocating for a harmful habit that not only affects the user but those around them regardless of "quality" ingredients. You're advocating for the poor smokers not being able to get "safe" cigarettes like the companies that sell them now aren't criminals in their own right.
No the issue is you smoke and don't like being told that your addiction is objectively bad.
You fucking do better.
Way to read the comment my dude. At no point did I say that smoking was good for you or advocate for it in any way. Those are lovely words you put in my mouth.
The point you missed is that humans are complicated, addiction is complicated, and shit simple solutions fed to the suffering masses from on high help no one. And as your example lampshades, sometimes makes it worse. Have we won the war on drugs yet?
Harm reduction has value and is more effective to ultimately get you what you want. It is not the fault of me or anyone else that the (provably) better solution to a difficult problem is distasteful and too slow for your taste.
Making things illegal does not make them go away, it makes them hide. Problems don't get solved in the shadows.