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Re:CVS Health Quits U.S. Chamber Over Stance on Smoking by jedberg on Tuesday July 07, 2015 @06:26PM (#9848521)
The difference is that a candy bar only kills the person who is consuming it (and kills them much slower than a cigarette), while the cigarette kills the people around the smoker too.
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Re:CVS Health Quits U.S. Chamber Over Stance on Smoking by ars on Tuesday July 07, 2015 @06:33PM (#9848555)
Another difference is that cigarettes STINK and are disgusting.

If you want to do something disgusting do it in private.

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Re:CVS Health Quits U.S. Chamber Over Stance on Smoking by baddox on Tuesday July 07, 2015 @07:09PM (#9848738)
Whether it's done in private is an entirely separate issue.
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Re:CVS Health Quits U.S. Chamber Over Stance on Smoking by PavlovsCat on Tuesday July 07, 2015 @08:55PM (#9849130)
What people find disgusting differs from person to person though, that's why it's the other way around, if you don't ever want to see anything you find disgusting, you have to stay at home or plan your routes extremely carefully, possibly wear blinders.
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Re:CVS Health Quits U.S. Chamber Over Stance on Smoking by Karunamon on Tuesday July 07, 2015 @08:46PM (#9849094)
Not so. The whole "second hand smoke" thing is BS.

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

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Re:CVS Health Quits U.S. Chamber Over Stance on Smoking by paulcole on Tuesday July 07, 2015 @08:51PM (#9849113)
From your link, "The study doesn’t cover the many other ill effects of breathing somebody else’s cigarette smoke, of course, which include asthma and possibly cardio-pulmonary disease."
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Re:CVS Health Quits U.S. Chamber Over Stance on Smoking by jedberg on Wednesday July 08, 2015 @04:30AM (#9850450)
My anecdotal evidence says otherwise. I get a headache whenever I'm near a smoker, even if I didn't know they were smoking until after I got the headache (I have a bad sense of smell and sometimes I don't smell it).
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