CVS is gonna stop selling cigarettes

[rushyrulz]

Re: CVS is gonna stop selling cigarettes

You can pull statistics like this from a lot of places and for a lot of different things. You know how many people die indirectly from alcohol per year? What about the number of people for talking on the phone while driving?

You can't just rely in statistics like this as a basis for your arguments. You have to analyze every area of something and the consequences from it. If cigarettes weren't legal would all of our taxes go up? Cigarettes are extremely highly taxed and the government needs this income to do a lot of very beneficial things.

I only smoke on average 1 cigarette a month btw, but I'm just saying you can't make arguments like that and expect to be taken seriously.

Drunk driving is completely illegal, while smoking is legal and encouraged. Do you see the problem now?

[choof]

Re: CVS is gonna stop selling cigarettes

I said most smokers, not all.

i wasn't talking to you

[Wafles]

Re: CVS is gonna stop selling cigarettes

Drunk driving is completely illegal, while smoking is legal and encouraged. Do you see the problem now?

I didn't mention drunk driving.

[Snowcrafta]

Re: CVS is gonna stop selling cigarettes

a lot of people start smoking for legitimate reasons, whether you may think those reasons are legitimate or not

I started because I was 19 and out of rum for the weekend and nobody was available to buy me more

[rushyrulz]

Re: CVS is gonna stop selling cigarettes

I didn't mention drunk driving.

You know how many people die indirectly from alcohol per year?

kinda did..

[Pseudo Enigma]

Re: CVS is gonna stop selling cigarettes

I grew up in a house with two smokers. They smoked indoors and never opened a window, and there was almost always one person smoking at any time. This continued for at least 8 years. All my stuff smelled like cigarette smoke. I'm pretty sure it's had a permanent effect on my senses and physicality.

Since my mom quit 6 years ago and I don't live with my dad anymore, I don't have to smell that stuff any more. But when I do it makes me want to puke.

Fuck smokers. If you still smoke today, please stop. You look retarded.

[mellonxcollie]

Re: CVS is gonna stop selling cigarettes

If someone wants to do something stupid, they should be free to do that stupid thing. Even if it can kill them.

They should just only be allowed to be used in private residences or businesses which specifically want to allow them. Like alcohol. I don't know how people think it's appropriate to do that shit out in public like they do.

Yupp. And as Pseudo Enigma has pointed out, there should probably be more restrictions about smoking around children, like they are doing in the UK where it will be illegal to smoke in a car with children present.

[Wafles]

Re: CVS is gonna stop selling cigarettes

kinda did..

Then you miss-interpreted what I said.

Point is you can't just base your argument off of statistics. I'm not arguing one way or the other here I'm just pointing out a flawed reasoning.

[Snowcrafta]

Re: CVS is gonna stop selling cigarettes

Tobacco is a huge part of culture for hundreds of years.

[Quigly]

Re: CVS is gonna stop selling cigarettes

lmao buncha nerds in this thread

[Quigly]

Re: CVS is gonna stop selling cigarettes

gimme all your lunch money or i'll give you a swirly

[Izzy]

Re: CVS is gonna stop selling cigarettes

I guess it is long overdue to end then.

[rushyrulz]

Re: CVS is gonna stop selling cigarettes

overdo

lol

[benguino]

Re: CVS is gonna stop selling cigarettes

I wonder if the decision was made because of moral/ethical reasons or if it's a cover up for a larger marketing/business scheme. On one hand, you might have some more people buying from CVS because they support their decision to stop selling ciggs. On the other hand, you have a lot of people that like to do their "one-stop shopping" and if they can't get their ciggs at CVS, they are not going to go there anymore. Which one will offset the other though is something I'm in no position to judge.

[korny]

Re: CVS is gonna stop selling cigarettes

You can pull statistics like this from a lot of places and for a lot of different things. You know how many people die indirectly from alcohol per year? What about the number of people for talking on the phone while driving?

You can't just rely in statistics like this as a basis for your arguments. You have to analyze every area of something and the consequences from it. If cigarettes weren't legal would all of our taxes go up? Cigarettes are extremely highly taxed and the government needs this income to do a lot of very beneficial things.

I only smoke on average 1 cigarette a month btw, but I'm just saying you can't make arguments like that and expect to be taken seriously.

I most definitely expect the argument from a quality of life perspective to be taken seriously when I bring up a statistic like that. By merely breathing the same air that is polluted with the byproducts of a cigarette, I am potentially at risk for cancer and other life threatening diseases. To argue that the government relies on the heavy taxing of these deadly, extremely addictive products is a counter to the validity of my claim in any way, is preposterous. However much money the government makes from taxes or however high our taxes are raised in correlation with the illegality of cigarettes is irrelevant. To argue in favor of the monetary repercussions vs the health benefits that come with regulating what goes into the products that are capable of causing thousands upon thousands of people to die by merely inhaling their byproducts is more of an argument of greed vs responsibility. The general acceptance of something doesn't take away from the outright contradicting nature of it's very existence. I don't believe that any substance in particular should be outright illegal at all, we should have the freedom to do what we want with our bodies, but to impinge upon others ability to live devoid of these substances by exhaling the deadly air that stagnates at local restaurants or bars, is just plain unfair to others seeking a higher quality of life.