OFF: smoking etc.

[M Holmes]

flossbac writes:

> If heroin or cocaine were available at every corner gas station,
> just like cigarettes, we would have just as large a problem with those drugs
> as with smoking.  This is not due to any particular moral weakness, but
> purely due to the addictive properties of said substances.

However, heroin, in known dose and pure supply, just isn't harmful, even
over thelong term, whereas tobacco smoke is. Cocaine powder and crack
are certainly harmful. However, where cocaine is legal, it's more
commonly taken as tea or by chewing leaf, which isn't nearly so
hazardous. powder and crack are a result of an efficient smuggling
process which is tself a response to Prohibition.

Not that I advocate that anyone uses tobacco, cocaine or heroin, it's
stupid behaviour. however the results of prohibition are a lot worse
than the results of a few people harming their health for some kicks.

> John Majka

FoFP