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A comment on New Zealand plans to make it illegal for kids to buy cigarettes – for life. Parent comment

Re:New Zealand plans to make it illegal for kids to buy ciga... by foxrider on Thursday December 09, 2021 @11:39AM (#29499542)
While both alcohol and weed can give you altered reality experience, tobacco can not. Tobacco smokers are a major annoyance and a nuisance to the public, on top of killing themselves slowly, so if the tobacco cigarrets would've been strictly illegal and you coldn't smoke in public I can't imagine people willing to organize into small secret clubs to smoke a few cigs a day in a place you have to go to.
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Re:New Zealand plans to make it illegal for kids to buy ciga... by zdragnar on Thursday December 09, 2021 @12:03PM (#29499915)
> I can't imagine people willing to organize into small secret clubs to smoke a few cigs

You mean like what underage kids already do?

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Re:New Zealand plans to make it illegal for kids to buy ciga... by yissp on Thursday December 09, 2021 @12:23PM (#29500222)
smokin' in the boys' room
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Re:New Zealand plans to make it illegal for kids to buy ciga... by nerdponx on Thursday December 09, 2021 @01:58PM (#29501429)
That's not true. A lot of people start smoking because it feels good.

Nicotine is psychoactive, and the physical act of smoking can be pleasant.

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Re:New Zealand plans to make it illegal for kids to buy ciga... by baud147258 on Thursday December 09, 2021 @12:45PM (#29500517)
> Tobacco smokers are a major annoyance and a nuisance to the public, on top of killing themselves slowly

isn't it kinda the same with weed anyway?

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Re:New Zealand plans to make it illegal for kids to buy ciga... by tsol on Saturday December 11, 2021 @02:01AM (#29519096)
>While both alcohol and weed can give you altered reality experience, tobacco can not.

What does that really mean? Cigarettes are psychoactive. Passed that, it's just a matter of degrees. To be honest I remember being 18 and smoking cigarettes with my friends and spacing out. In retrospect it was very lame, but kids will try to alter their consciousness however they can

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Re:New Zealand plans to make it illegal for kids to buy ciga... by downrightmike on Thursday December 09, 2021 @12:47PM (#29500560)
Plus they generally just toss their used butts onto the ground everywhere. Toxic, radioactive and a biohazard all in one.
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