Cigarette conspiracy?
6 2017-09-15 by c0olking
I have been thinking about this for a long time. What I cant figure out is if the government wants us to smoke or not? In Denmark where I am, they put nasty pictures on the actual box. Government also takes a big cut in extra tax for cigarettes. Saying thats to pay for medical care causedby smoking. Big cigarette production must be alot of dollar..
27 comments
1 Putin_loves_cats 2017-09-15
Lights smoke. They are all working together, because the governments are Corporations.
1 Chuck_Rogers 2017-09-15
Isn't that far too simplistic?
1 Putin_loves_cats 2017-09-15
No, what... do you want me to write a book on how it is, in order for you to accept it? Sometimes the simplest explanation, is the best explanation ;)
1 Chuck_Rogers 2017-09-15
Write it and I'll read it.
Scouts honour
1 Putin_loves_cats 2017-09-15
I'll get right on that, in the mean time, have a look: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/District_of_Columbia_Organic_Act_of_1871
1 ichoosejif 2017-09-15
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1 Mecanatron 2017-09-15
They want you to smoke but they want you to think that they don't want you to smoke.
More smoking = less old age pensions + massive tax income.
The cost of healthcare on the taxpayer doesn't even compare, if it did they'd ban cigarettes tomorrow.
1 c0olking 2017-09-15
Thats makes sense why they are so obvious with their nasty labels
1 X_Irradiance 2017-09-15
I'm still at the stage of holding the vape in one hand and a cigarette in the other. I'll get there.
1 agent570358201 2017-09-15
It costs them 5-6 cents per pack I believe.
And of course the government, which controls the tobacco industry, wants us to smoke. I'm not sure about Denmark, but here there is little to no evidence of the government being concerned about our good health, in any regard.
1 c0olking 2017-09-15
and where are you from?
1 goroboldo 2017-09-15
I don't think they want us to smoke. Deaths by smoking is common enough that I wager a large portion of the politicians who make laws have personally lost someone to it.
Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.
1 Chuck_Rogers 2017-09-15
Cigarette taxes being a useful and politically palatable source of revenue doesn't necessarily translate to governments wanting us to smoke, no.
1 c0olking 2017-09-15
That does not make alot of sense. Politicians only care about their career. They dont have any skill, other then some social ones. They cant solve problems. They dont know how. Its widely known inhere that our governments are owned by the big corporations. Common knowledge inhere. All I was wondering about, was the freaky labels on the box.
1 goroboldo 2017-09-15
No they don't, this is an over-generalization.
1 angelsfa11st 2017-09-15
Name one politician that gives a fuck that accomplished anything in the past few decades. Al Franken is about as good as it gets.
1 c0olking 2017-09-15
You had zero arguments in your post.
1 BaronMoriarty 2017-09-15
If they cared they would ban fluoride in our water and toothpaste; GM foods, McDonalds and KFC; not to mention chentrails.. but they don't care full stop
1 bigodiel 2017-09-15
Cigarette smoking lowers the risk of Parkinson and Alzheimer ....
1 DoEyeNoU 2017-09-15
Then, by George, I should never be diagnosed with either of those!
1 BransonBombshell 2017-09-15
The government doesn't care if you smoke or not. The government does care about TAX REVENUE from cigarette sales. As long as they collect that fat tax revenue, cigarettes will be legal.
1 BaronMoriarty 2017-09-15
If everyone quit most countries would go bankrupt. Here in the UK the National Health Service would crash within a month or two. Smokers pay more tax than anybody here. Its a double con. Am going for a smoke..
1 purple_pink 2017-09-15
Most governments have done a lot to make sure people don't smoke. In countries with any type of socialized medicine, it makes sense. The variety of health problems caused or exacerbated by smoking/tobacco outweighed the (normal amount) of tax the government received from tobacco companies, until the extra taxes were added.
The international (and internal) pressure to tax cigarettes and make other pretty massive concessions to public health lobbyists (like using the images you talk about in some places, putting in age limits for buying tobacco products, etc) was pretty big a few decades ago. Governments didn't become anti-smoking out of the goodness of their hearts. If they had, they'd be doing similar things for sugar now.
1 KarmaPolice777 2017-09-15
Tobacco and cigarettes are not necessarily the same things. I have no problems with the former. It's something that has been enjoyed for thousands of years. Native Americans who were in tune with nature smoked it in ceremonies.
Cigarettes on the other hand,
https://www.cinj.org/sites/cinj/files/inline/images/hidden_danger.jpeg
1 hrccbr1000rr 2017-09-15
I think they don't want you to smoke. But the reason is punishment of the old money that owned the tobacco production. They certainly do t give two shits about the general population's health.
1 X_Irradiance 2017-09-15
I think it's interesting to consider whether the incessant "smoking kills" messaging isn't perhaps a kind of 'nocebo' making the health outcomes worse.
1 Moelah 2017-09-15
Yep its called appealing to counter cultureness prevalent in youth.