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Re:Almost half of cancer deaths are caused by smoking, alcoh... by skeeter2020 on Sunday September 04, 2022 @01:51PM (#32715671)
> Just stop.

Not a smoker but my initial reaction to you is probably pretty close to that of a smoker, and not particularly favourable. How can you possibly think that a deeply physiological addiction is going to respond to either logical arguments or simplistic slogans? Once you fix smoking, can you please stop the opioid crisis?

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Re:Almost half of cancer deaths are caused by smoking, alcoh... by jodrellblank on Monday September 05, 2022 @09:33AM (#32724119)
This is like programmers being asked to debug something, sneering back "you think this deeply complicated distributed database problem could be caused by an off-by-one error, pfft, what do you know?" and then just ... not debugging it.

> "How can you possibly think that a deeply physiological addiction is going to respond to either logical arguments"

Because many many ex-smokers have said that it happened for them: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32715196

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