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[โ€“] ChairmanMeow@programming.dev 8 points 2 months ago (2 children)

If said vice causes lung cancer I'm perfectly hapoy with that attidude.

[โ€“] JovialMicrobial@lemm.ee 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I'd rather be near someone vaping than a drunk person.

The vaping I can walk away from, but a drunk driver could kill me.

I find public drunkenness to be more deadly and problematic than vaping, but that just my opinion regarding public health issues.

[โ€“] ChairmanMeow@programming.dev 6 points 2 months ago (2 children)

It's not a competition. Banning one thing doesn't require all other potentially worse things to also be banned first. Besides, in many places open drunkenness and drunk driving are already banned.

[โ€“] Honytawk@lemmy.zip 3 points 2 months ago

No, but they could at least show some consistency.

At the moment it is all focussed on tobacco and almost none on alcohol except during driving.

[โ€“] JovialMicrobial@lemm.ee 2 points 2 months ago

It's not a competition, but priorities. The things that kill innocent people should be higher on the list when writing new policies. Clearly the policies in place are not enough to prevent drunk driving and people are still getting killed from it. It's still a problem and has been a problem and we should focus on that more than we currently are.

If people are still driving drunk with it being illegal and we can't even get that under control with current laws, how can we expect the new laws regarding vaping to be productive?

And tbh this is quite personal. I've lost a friend to drunk driving about every 2 years since I turned 18. My friend's alcoholic father murdered him when I was younger. I've seen nothing good come from that shit and it destroys lives. I don't see vaping as even remotely comparable to the destruction alcohol can do.

[โ€“] Ibuthyr@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 2 months ago

Show me the statistics of how many people got cancer from second hand smoke in outdoor areas. I'll wait. Just make cigarettes fucking expensive, like in Australia. Make smokers pay more for health insurance. There's so many good ways of handling the problem. Banning people from smoking outside is just fuel for all the fucking Nazis that would love to get rid of the EU. And it won't change a fucking Thing. As if people would suddenly stop smoking outside when no one is around.