
No-one has to smoke. It's a 100% personal choice. Just like drinking etc. If you can't handle that then 1) you're a massive pussy 2) You've got personal control issues
( , Fri 24 Nov 2017, 10:55, Reply)

Cept your firms target fucking children because they have to get them started young.
At the time you were working for them BAT was caught actively giving out "samples" of cigs to kids at African youth events.
But if you don't give a fuck about the African kids have some UK figures.
www.cancerresearchuk.org/health-professional/cancer-statistics/risk/childhood-smoking
( , Fri 24 Nov 2017, 11:12, Reply)

You always have a choice. Sure handing out fags to kids is stupid behaviour, which is why they've rightly stopped. That having been said, I remember getting people to buy me booze and fags when I was 13 because kids will be kids.
( , Fri 24 Nov 2017, 11:22, Reply)

You have to submit to addiction. After that, you've made your choice.
Using the concept of "addiction" to justify anyone's actions is bullshit though.
If you like a bit of the smack (or whatever the fave of the kids is these days) and you go mug someone to get the cash for that? That's you making the direct moral choice that your enjoyment is more important than someone else.
Addiction has become a catchall excuse for any bad behviour when it's up to everyone to be personally responsible.
Is Harvey Weinstein a poor misunderstood sex addict, or a rapist sex pest who's trying to excuse his morally repugnant behaviour?
( , Fri 24 Nov 2017, 12:20, Reply)

Is it the child or the scumbag that targeted them and got them hooked?
( , Fri 24 Nov 2017, 12:33, Reply)

Opiate abuse is a socio-economic issue. Look at the reasons for people abusing not the people doing it. There's a reason that opiate abuse is pretty much constrained to one class in the UK and that's nothing to do with people pushing or otherwise, its because of a lack of education, lack of social mobility and lack of opportunity (all of which you Brexitwunts have made worse). The dealer in nearly all cases was a user first.
Comparing Opiate abuse to having a ciggie isn't quite as stupid as cerebus' false equivalence, but it's getting there.
( , Fri 24 Nov 2017, 12:40, Reply)

Smack is the cat's pyjamas and is no respecter of class or socio-economic status.
( , Fri 24 Nov 2017, 14:02, Reply)

The relationship between deprivation and drug abuse has been proven time and time again, call bollocks all you want.
( , Fri 24 Nov 2017, 14:13, Reply)

( , Fri 24 Nov 2017, 17:39, Reply)

statistics (Div) and the fact that statistics are irrelevant to the individual (Pruf)?
( , Fri 24 Nov 2017, 18:17, Reply)

I say that there is a cunt in this room. And I shall not shirk my duty to blind justice to name that man.
Mr Prufock - Do you see the cunt in this court room?
And are you sure - beyond a reasonable doubt - that is to say what the man on the Clapham omnibus would understand -that he is *the* cunt?
Then please point him out to the jury, and describe to these good ladies and gentlemen *why* he is a cunt.
( , Fri 24 Nov 2017, 19:48, Reply)