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I've never smoked so I'm not completely in tune with smoking and quitting. I've recently seen on the news where Health Canada are now looking at imposing heavier restrictions on the smokeless cigarettes. It seems that young people are starting on those now. I guess only having 12 chemicals instead of thousands is better for you. The claim by Health Canada is that the smokeless are still addictive and are to help people quit, not to start on them.
Good ole Health Canada is still working hard for the huge cigarette companies to keep on making money selling poison. It's all about money and taxes, not about our health.
You know that food group chart from Health Canada?...throw it away as it is there only to promote the sale of meats and dairy. Vegetables should be WAY up at the top of the list.
In this day and age when so much is known about how BAD smoking is for you, I wonder why ANYONE would start such a filthy and expensive habit. It's just plain stupid IMHO.
I quit 7 months ago. Like miya i read allan carr's easy way to stop smoking and have not looked back.
Dita the paperback is like 20 bux and its very light reading. I am not a person who enjoys reading and i managed. You will tear through the 300 some pages really quickly. took me 3days and i haven't read a book since university lol.
Go to chapters now girl and get it. I was 25 a day for 25 years and just stopped. Im 39 and haven't felt this healthy since high school.
I, well, flirted w/ cig smoking when I was 12 years of age -- with friends. For about 2 months. And that was it.
I've just passed the 30 mark. So I doubt it impacted my health.
But should cigs be banned? I mean, since 1964 20 million Americans have died, prematurely, from cigarette smoking.
The sensible approach -- with all drugs -- is to focus on education, prevention and treatment.
I mean, the war on drugs, specifically in the U.S., is a racist war. That's its function. Not sure about Canada.
But Harper doesn't come across as a left-leaning hippie sympathetic to drug addiction.
Plus do a simple cost-benefit analysis. Who benefits, who pays the costs.
The prison system in America is private. They need bodies. So, state policy will -- and does -- reflect private interests. The interests of concentrated private wealth.
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