• genoxidedev1@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    I know this is pretty radical, but if we made smoking FFA way fewer people should theoretically start smoking in the first place. From my experience when I was still at school most of the people there were only smoking because it’s “cool”, making smoking legal for everyone should take the coolness factor away at least.

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      1 year ago

      I don’t know about that, from what I remember being a kid it’s more about what their parents allow them to do than just the law. I knew a Mormon kid who thought it was badass to drink root beer and see R rated movies. If your parents tell you not to smoke that could be all it takes to make it cool. My suggestion: smokin’ Teletubbies

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      1 year ago

      Please, oh dear god…

      Please tell me what FFA means and how it doesn’t amount to “send poor people to prison”.

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        1 year ago

        FFA just means “free for all” (it’s a term from competitive games, in case you shouldn’t know), in this context I used it as another word for ‘legal’.

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          1 year ago

          Oh thank god.

          Yes, I 100 percent agree with you. Your thought process is the way.

          Sorry I was so adversarial in my first comment. A lot of the rest of this thread has me all sorts of triggered.