Suffocation of personal liberty
Smoking bans are nothing more, but measures to increase profit.
Imagine having 10 or 50 millions of people stopping their work for only 5 minutes a day. To have a worker that is losing 5 or 15 minutes a day in order to smoke his cigarette, could cost a massive multinational corporation a millions of dollars.
But, if you forbid workers worldwide to exercise this petty liberty, you certainly will save money. How these small numbers affect global economy, you can best understand by watching what`s new in Belgian politics. A candidate for upcoming elections is promising to increase BDP of Belgium for a massive amount just by adding 15 minutes more to a standard work day.
That would roughly equal the time a worker would spend by smoking his cigarette, right? Maybe, corporations that influence the global politics have done the same math earlier… much earlier… some 10 or 15 years ago? That would coincide with the period of first smoking bans, in late 90s.
And I personally do not have problem with that.
If you are an employee in such an establishment, you do agree to limitations of that kind. Real problem is when a global hysteria prevails, and propaganda steps in. Both being motivated by nothing more, than a keen eye for increasing profit - on expence of your lifestyle.
Smoking is bad for your health. But is also a part of your decision, your personal responsability, and freedom to make your own decisions is nothing more, but a core essence of a liberty. So, if other people have mind you smoking in a caffe, don`t.
Go to the caffe that is exclusively for smokers. There, you could continue pursuing your little habits, no matter how dirty or unhealthy they were, knowing that all the passive smokers inside are that by choice, and by choice, only. Now, forbiding and anathematizing cigarettes by claiming they are causing cancer etc, is nothing more but a hypocrisy, and an easily beatable argument proving how ludicrous the whole propaganda really is in it`s heart.
Industry in your city is causing much greater risk for your health, then a cigarette after a fine meal. Lung cancer is caused mostly by presence of heavy metals, toxins and industrial remnants. Cigarettes don`t come as near as those, in making your lungs collapse.
Most interesting of all, is factor of stress. Factor no.1 in getting cancer. That is a real enemy. When you light your first cigarette in a morning, take a sip of hot, smoking black coffee, you are one step further from a cancer. Not one step closer.
Don`t let others dictate your freedom. Enjoy your choices. Lies and propaganda are not motivated by your well being, but by profits, where every minute of your time is pure old $$$
We will see who will live longer, at the end ;)
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