Yet another example of government attempting to dictate how people live their lives. Government has thrown out the principle of personal responsibility by placing blame on things. Cigarettes do not kill people, misusing them does. Twenty ounce sodas do not make people any fatter than twenty ounce lattes but misusing them does. Government has also maligned the fast food industry which is a useful, lawful enterprise because some people over indulge and become obese, that is the responsibility of people who eat too much not the responsibility of fast food. Lastly, we hear "Guns kill people!" Guns do not kill people, people kill people. Left to themselves all guns can do is slowly rust away.
What we need is for government to get the hell out of our lives and leave us alone!
Bud
Australian Court OKs Cigarette Logo Ban: Should Your Country Do the Same?
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2012/08/16 22:00:00
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Starting this December, branding and logos from cigarette companies cannot be displayed anywhere on cigarette packages in Australia. According to CBS News, "the packs will instead come in a uniformly drab shade of olive and feature graphic health warnings and images of cancer-riddled mouths, blinded eyeballs and sickly children." The government hopes the new packs will make smoking as unglamorous as possible.
CBSNEWS.COM reports:
CBSNEWS.COM reports:
Cigarette packs in Australia on track to be stripped of corporate logos, despite tobacco lobbying
Read More: http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-202_162-57493362/austr...
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Bud 2012/08/17 14:35:50
cigarettes
eggs
saturated fats
gas-guzzling cars
alcohol
red meat (it should be carefully moderated)
bungee jumping (or participation in any other extreme hobbies)
vigorous sex (it can kill you, you know)
salt
tofu/soy (if it's not made like the Japanese make it, because it can overload your body with plant-style faux estrogens)
sugar
artificial sweetener
coffee
And they can make illegal:
refusing medical help/pills
self-harm
driving
being out during a thunderstorm
refusing to evacuate a disaster zone
How about, for eggs? They can force them to have pictures of clogged arteries, and stroke patients, and increase the taxes on them? Same for salt. For gas-guzzling cars, they can make the dealers put pictures of people's lungs after damage from exhaust, and automotive crashes, with pictures of the victims. Bungee Jumping (and other extreme sports)? They can force them to show people images of former examples of street/ground pizza, and put on a hefty tax for the risk they're posing to their life, like... a danger tax! That sounds good? For tofu/soy, they can have them put on images of men with breasts, and maybe a little tray of semen from a man whose sperm count is excessively low, because of it. On condoms, vaginal lubricants, and whatnot, they can put pictures of people who've died having sex, with the Warning: Vigorous sex may cause death, and that danger tax can go here, too.
All this because, evidently, these people are idiots, and simply must get a heavy-handed image in order for them to understand, "these things may kill you!" Because, obviously, they don't know this already.
And, all of those other "encouragements" I listed above. I mean, if "encouragement" is putting pictures that turn people off of unhealthy/dangerous stuff, well...
If this is seriously okay with you, then there really isn't anything else to say.
"Those fat people are just so unhealthy, and it's so unfortunate that they choose to live that way, bless their hearts."
You think you're being caring, or acting concerned, but you're really telling them how they should live, and basically rubbing it in their faces if they choose not to live the way you believe they should.
People who smoke aren't "blissfully unaware," because normally, the people around them have nothing better to do than spout out little nuggets like, "smoking is going to kill you." Guess what? Life is going to kill you, and if your DNA does not say, "you're going to live to be a centenarian," guess what? You're not passing 100, it doesn't matter if you eat kashi and quinoa, breathe pure oxygen, jog until you no longer can, and have the best doctors. There are centenarians who have participated in all sorts of vices, but guess what? They still got past 100, because their DNA was just that...good. Such is life. We're all going to die some day, and it is our choice whether that day is sooner, with life lived to its fullest, or further away, living in fear of every single thing we choose to put into our bodies.
People have free will, they're not that idiotic, contrary to my, personal, opinion. They don't eat fattening, sugary foods and think, "Oh! This is going to help me lose weight!" They don't smoke and say, "Oh, this is going to help me live longer!" People are free to make their own choices within the confines of the law, and cigarettes are not illegal, neither is alcohol, sugar, cars, and such.
It is okay for people to have liberty to pursue their happiness. If that means smoking ten packs a day, so be it. Your opinion is your opinion, obviously, but you have no right to take another's away, no matter how they are deciding to destroy their own bodies. That sort of goes with the rapist thing, too. A rapist is infringing on another person's liberty, just like murderers, and such, and deserve punishment for it.
First they came for the socialists,
and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a socialist.
Then they came for the trade unionists,
and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a trade unionist.
Then they came for the Jews,
and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a Jew.
Then they came for me,
and there was no one left to speak for me.
People who eat McDonalds aren't shocked they get fat, unless they're eating the salads and thinking that they're somehow "healthier." People who smoke aren't particularly shocked when they get some smoking-related illness. They don't think that they'll be the one to get it, but it's not like there wasn't ample warning. Pictures are thoroughly unnecessary and excessive.
Well, supposedly, low fetal birth weight and IQ are caused by smoking while pregnant. Since you don't like to think of the fact that these things affect people selectively, I wonder how big of a baby I would have been, since I was born 23" long, and about 9lbs. If you don't know, that's a pretty big baby, and having had my IQ professionally tested, well, I wonder how much more intelligent I would have been. My mother says it would be scary.