And it happened right when it became apparent that we were living in the Disinformation Age and every bit of power to flag bullshit content became that much more important.
If the idea is reducing it to the point where smokers don’t think it’s worth it to smoke anymore, then just ban them. Otherwise you absolutely will have people who will smoke 3-4x more to get their original fix. Or they’ll take deeper draws and hold it longer like people did when lights were introduced (there were studies on this)
No I literally think they should ban them instead of playing stupid games like taking most of the nicotine out and hoping people make the healthier decision vs the more destructive one of smoking more.
Whether nicotine reduction would even lead to a net reduction in harm is the actual hypothetical here, and there are reasons to believe it wouldn’t, which is all I’m pointing out. It just sounds like a shitty policy, regardless of ideology.
I’m not arguing nicotine isn’t addictive. It’s the whole basis of why there’s good reason to believe people woule just smoke more to get their fix, and all the harm that comes with the added tar consumption that would involve.
It also wouldn’t be the first time a political party proposed a poorly thought out policy that sounds good on paper but doesn’t help in practice. If there is some accompanying successful medical study that motivated such a policy then I can be convinced otherwise, but until then let’s stop pretending these doubts are not obvious and reasonable.
Long overdue. As more nations backslide the collective power of the EU will diminish since everyone will be more and more incentived to extort or block new laws than to cooperate and act as partners. Hungary has made this plainly obvious in the case of EU. Turkey in the case of NATO. Russia in the case of UN. Time to wake up. If you don’t like it you can leave.
Table/chair slightly blocking screen, and I suspect there is some sort of fuckery going on with how that pizza is cut but I’m can’t tell because my hands are literally shaking at this point
I had lost hope with my electric cooking plates. The white circles where completely hidden under a layer of diamond-grade burn residue that no amount of scrubbing with chemicals could even begin to remove. I found this 3€ scrapping tool and it’s amazing !!! Sorry, but I don’t have the before picture, believe me after 6...
Aiming is still important obviously, but when you start training on these from the age of 6 years old it becomes just as accurate as the older non-atlatl versions
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It’s amazing how much work goes into cleaning up code before you feel comfortable posting it to a mailing list that you would never even bother doing for internal-only stuff.
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Russian eats breakfast near Avdiivka. (streamable.com)
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New Zealand scraps world-first smoking ‘generation ban’ to fund tax cuts (www.theguardian.com)
Health experts say axing plan to block sales of tobacco products to next generation will cost thousands of lives
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Poland's main parties, PiS and PO, to oppose EU treaty change (notesfrompoland.com)
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Elon offers Wikipedia $ 1 billion to change their name to Dickipedia (www.theguardian.com)
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