Daily Sizzle: Gov’t makes hipsters cry. RP sheds a tear.

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LA Times Article on new tobacco prevention act

Smoking is a terrible terrible problem and I’m glad its banned from most if not all public places in many parts of the United States.  It gives you cancer, destroys your teeth, and makes you smell bad.  They’re also just plain fucking gross.  Fifty years ago, nobody knew any better, and so their kids didn’t really know any better either.  Things have certainly changed since then.  That being said, the latest government legislation on cigarette control has really gone too far.

I agree that “candy cigarettes” are a bad idea because they put this idea in a child’s head that their tasty and then when they turn 16 they start smoking and die at 45 from lung cancer.   That’s a very reasonable and sound argument but when you make cloves illegal, you’re asking for trouble.  I probably smoke 6 cloves a year. I think they’re tasty, I enjoy them when I’m inebriated, and they’re perfect for enjoying during a game of Tittywhistle (the world’s greatest game).  So, why am I being punished while people who smoke a pack or more a day of regular cigarettes still can enjoy their death sticks?  Most kids can’t even pronounce Djarum, let alone know to pick up a pack at your local bodega.

They can throw all these statistical “facts” at me about how most children start with flavored death sticks and then move on to regular ones when their older, but… I like cloves. Ok, so my argument sucks, but if I can’t complain on my own website I don’t know where I can! I think my biggest issue is I always felt like cloves were half way between cigarettes and cigars.  I never thought of them as something I would smoke 10 times a day or whatever, mostly because the slight taste of fiberglass is my mouth is generally something I only allow a couple times a year.

I will now take a step off my soapbox and go down to the corner store that is STILL selling them because I live in a huge metropolitan area where this law is going to be impossible to enforce for the next couple weeks.

by roninpowride
10 months ago