• PonyOfWar@pawb.social
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    4 months ago

    Smoking. Millions of euros of taxpayer money spent every year on those lung cancer patients which could be well spent elsewhere. It’s also an activity that negatively affects not just the smoker but everyone around them.

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      4 months ago

      Smoking is something I truly despise, we all know that it is bad, really bad for you, we teach kids about it, yet people still start smoking.

      Do as New Zealand did, set a cut off year, if you are born after 2015, you will not be permitted to buy tobacco at all.

      • wewbull@feddit.uk
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        4 months ago

        Great. You’ve just made another illegal narcotic, a black market and a way of financing illegal activity.

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          4 months ago

          I’d agree with you on that if tobacco was completely banned, but banning from a specific age, seems like a fairly low impact.

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    4 months ago

    Requiring the purchase or use of proprietary software or formats to view or submit public records.

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    Supermarkets and businesses throwing food away and not allowing people to take it for free. (“If I can’t sell it nobody can have it”).

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      4 months ago

      Would only work if you also made them immune from lawsuits due to people getting sick from eating expired food.

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        4 months ago

        they already are under the good samaritan laws; they use lawsuits as an excuse for their shitty behavior.