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Re:The New Smoking by hardwaresofton on Sunday November 20, 2022 @06:16PM (#33686589)
So I generally agree with all these opinions but… I was talking about cigarettes?

Also “vice” in the meaning of a bad habit, not the drug squad.

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Re:The New Smoking by scarface74 on Sunday November 20, 2022 @06:18PM (#33686611)
Same thing, the NYPD killed a man for selling a cigarettes

https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/eric-garner-dies...

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Re:The New Smoking by hardwaresofton on Sunday November 20, 2022 @06:33PM (#33686730)
Again I fully agree on the broad points but felt a little bit like shoehorning an only slightly related topic in.

But meh, awareness of those topics could probably stand to be higher anyway

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Re:The New Smoking by dsfyu404ed on Monday November 21, 2022 @09:13AM (#33692655)
They killed him for daring to thumb his nose at the authority of the state by being a bootlegger. Cigarettes just happen to be what he sold.

At the end of the day this is the kind of random violence that backs up every mundane law.

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