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Re:How Australia is stubbing out smoking by gkya on Wednesday February 01, 2017 @08:10AM (#13540411)
Well it's arguable that alcoholism has way less direct bad effects on public than smoking. There's nothing like passive alcoholism.
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Re:How Australia is stubbing out smoking by collyw on Wednesday February 01, 2017 @11:45AM (#13542266)
It may be a nuisance but passive smoking has negligible effects on public health.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/danielfisher/2013/12/12/study-fi...

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Re:How Australia is stubbing out smoking by ufo on Wednesday February 01, 2017 @11:49AM (#13542299)
Alcoholism is actually one of the drugs that scores the highest on the "harm to others" category, due to things like drunk driving
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Re:How Australia is stubbing out smoking by lixquid on Wednesday February 01, 2017 @11:39AM (#13542209)
Tell that to the drunk car crash victim, or the overloaded EMT at closing time.
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