I agree 110% that this is revolting.234_amDecember 6 2013, 04:38:21 UTC
...but is every single cigarette smoker in the world to blame for this? No. I am sorry, but I'm also very sick of hearing non-smokers complain about Big Tobacco while they eat GMOs and take pills. I can almost guarantee that the smokers I speak to about this article would be shocked and horrified that tobacco is harvested using child labor, especially considering that as smokers we know how harmful nicotine is; I've heard first hand, as my father harvested tobacco in the 60s in southern Ontario. Because the USA will not enforce their own beliefs some kids suffer and everyone hates the adults who chose to smoke tobacco that is harvested with of age workers.
TL;DR: OP is a non-smoker. I disagree using kids to harvest a practically illegal crop but seriously, stop the hate on smokers and focus on Big Tobacco. You can smoke tobacco without their fingers in your shit.
Yeah. I take my medications because I would literally die without them. The same can't be said about cigarettes, and the comparison is honestly insulting.
Seriously, comparing medications some of us require to treat health problems with smoking is pretty darned offensive, afaic!
I am dependent on antidepressants for my mental health. My psychiatric history is such that according to my doctor, I would have something like a 99% likelihood of falling into another major depression if I tried to stop taking them.
There is also another set of medications I take for my allergies and asthma, without which I would constantly be a sneezing, wheezing, runny eyed and nosed, itching, scratching mess, unable to function on anything resembling a normal level.
I don't take any of these meds for FUN--I take them for SURVIVAL. And I have ZERO percent control over where my meds come from or how they are produced. I HAVE to buy them from the sources my insurance REQUIRES me to buy them from, or do without, because without insurance, the cost would be astronomical.
Re: I agree 110% that this is revolting.tifaDecember 6 2013, 18:46:15 UTC
Other people have already spoken about your take on "lazy people" and their "pill-popping lifestyles" so I don't need to elaborate.
This isn't an anti-smoking brigade. It's a regulation (or lack thereof) thing. Western tobacco is also being harvested in other countries where we have no jurisdiction but the same things-if not worse-are happening.
Re: I agree 110% that this is revolting.lied_ohne_worteDecember 7 2013, 20:31:19 UTC
But passive fastfood-eating is just as dangerous as passive smoking! Or something, that whole series of comments makes a negative amount of sense, what with the "popping pills".
Re: I agree 110% that this is revolting.moonshazDecember 11 2013, 03:16:28 UTC
WELL?
234_am, I think you owe some of us here an apology for belittling the medications we need to take to stay alive/maintain some minimal quality of live/just plain SURVIVE.
You've made some outrageous accusations here. Some of us have posted to challenge them. You need to either apologize for insulting us or at least have the balls to come back here and defend your shit.
TL;DR: OP is a non-smoker. I disagree using kids to harvest a practically illegal crop but seriously, stop the hate on smokers and focus on Big Tobacco. You can smoke tobacco without their fingers in your shit.
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I am dependent on antidepressants for my mental health. My psychiatric history is such that according to my doctor, I would have something like a 99% likelihood of falling into another major depression if I tried to stop taking them.
There is also another set of medications I take for my allergies and asthma, without which I would constantly be a sneezing, wheezing, runny eyed and nosed, itching, scratching mess, unable to function on anything resembling a normal level.
I don't take any of these meds for FUN--I take them for SURVIVAL. And I have ZERO percent control over where my meds come from or how they are produced. I HAVE to buy them from the sources my insurance REQUIRES me to buy them from, or do without, because without insurance, the cost would be astronomical.
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Your cigarettes do the opposite to you, by choice and for recreational purposes. That's not something you can compare.
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This isn't an anti-smoking brigade. It's a regulation (or lack thereof) thing. Western tobacco is also being harvested in other countries where we have no jurisdiction but the same things-if not worse-are happening.
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wait, what? are you seriously saying that someone who comes out of a McDonalds smells as strongly as someone who has just smoked a cigarette?
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234_am, I think you owe some of us here an apology for belittling the medications we need to take to stay alive/maintain some minimal quality of live/just plain SURVIVE.
You've made some outrageous accusations here. Some of us have posted to challenge them. You need to either apologize for insulting us or at least have the balls to come back here and defend your shit.
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Whereas with second-hand smoke they're being affected by a choice someone else made?
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