Were you addicted to cigarettes before you tried a cigarette? The point being made is that if a kid has to go to a drug dealer to get a drug, they aren’t going to buy cigarettes in the first place. They’ll get addicted to a different drug, which might not be any better.
Because it isn’t just your body in your home. It is the entire healthcare system that has to deal with the impacts of smokers. It is the neighbors who have to smell it from your house. It is the kids of parents who are smokers.
You are looking at it from the perspective of someone who is already addicted, not from the perspective of an entire population of people who have never had access to legal cigarettes. This isn’t for people who are already addicted. This is to achieve fewer people from becoming addicted.
Yes, statistics show most smokers start smoking before the age of 16, so obtaining cigarettes legally isn’t stopping them. But the sheer number of smokers dropped when it became harder to find places to smoke after bar/restaurant/public area bans. It’s interesting looking at the trends of smokers over time. Adult use in the US has held a VERY consistent downward trend since the 1970s, holding around the same slope for 50 years. However, youth use dropped significantly right around the time cities and states implemented smoking bans in bars/restaurants/public areas. That is correlation, not necessarily causation, so I am not claiming it as fact.
I will say it is absolutely jarring to travel to Europe from the US. I travel a lot, and going from a city where very few people smoke (well, they smoke, just not tobacco) to almost any city in Europe is a shock to my nose. It doesn’t stop me visiting Europe every year, but man it does make walking on the streets there less enjoyable.
This guy billionaires.
I don’t know, I kinda see Trump as Biff Tannen, not Israel.
No, but when you’re being funded by millions of dollars of campaign contributions to go out and win people over, you have the money to have Hugo Boss on speed dial if you think how you look matters to people you are trying to convince to vote for you.
That means they either don’t think appearance matters, which is counter to pretty much every study on human nature, or they look that way intentionally. It’s one thing for a normal dude without much fashion sense or without the money to afford nice things to have ill-fitting clothes. It’s another when a politician with a team of advisors and a ton of money looks like this.
Also, Hugo Boss has been dead for 80 years, so of course nobody has him on speed dial.
India buying oil with Yuan.
UAE threatening a switch to Yuan.
The bricks are starting to fall, and it’s not going to be a graceful collapse.
Wait, so tourism counts as white privilege to you?
Wow, I’ll make sure I remind the 40 million annual Chinese people leaving the country on vacation that they are enjoying white privilege.
That… that’s not why China has an issue with Taiwan.
Like, at all.
You are right. This story does feel like a fluff piece to highlight the corporation.
It’s in the story:
“The potential annual earnings from working eight hours a day can be as high as $5,000 - a figure that far surpasses India’s per capita income of around $3,000.”
Nothing about that picture looks normal. The whole thing looks like an AI mockup of an ad.
Also, how often do people wear Doordash shirts while delivering for Doordash?
The locals love them and have turned them into a tourist industry. I still think they need to be eradicated.
Which is wild, since a couple months ago most of the world would have said that Iranian leadership were murderous psychopaths for killing thousands of civilian protesters. Yet, here we are with those same leaders being the adults in the room.
And one of those bad things is your opinion in this matter.
Look, I agree with every one of your other points, but to say that “the US has been openly genociding trans people” is ludicrously stupid. Yes, some of the states are making anti-bathroom laws, and some of the states are making laws about not allowing medical/therapeutic support to minors for transitioning, and the federal government is making anti-trans executive orders about colleges… but genocide? Seriously?
Don’t water down the use of the word genocide. It’s a very serious thing that is currently happening and supported by the US, but that is not what is happening with trans people. Yet. It might happen with the way things are going, but not yet.
Most people on here gave Jewish pundits shit for calling 700 Jewish deaths in the October attack another “holocaust” and “genocide.” We give those same people shit for not calling 70,000 Palestinian deaths a genocide. Don’t be like those people.
I mean, I actually am the target demographic for all games but the final… and I’m certainly not buying tickets to any game. I was so excited to go to as many games as I could make in my home city, maybe even in other cities. Now I’m not considering going to any games at all.
“Why did the Americans attack us?”
I’ll refer you to the image of Peter Griffin next to a color coded piece of paper.
Congrats on the dumbest thing I’ve read today, and I’ve read quotes from Trump today!
“Based on where you are born, you can’t be a good person.” That’s literally what you are saying.
You: “Being Chinese and a good driver is contradictory.”
You: “Being African and a smart student is contradictory.”
While negatively impacting everyone around you.