Flavored cigarettes have recently been banned. The New York Times reported that in 2008 the tobacco industry had an estimated $96 billion in sales, yet flavored cigarettes make up about 1% of those sales. According to the Centers for Disease Control, since the Happy Meal starred on the McDonald's menu the childhood obesity rate has risen from 4.2%-17%.
The ethics and morals that govern and control our lives are being treated about as sacrosanct as a circus clown.
In the same way an overweight, Loony Tunes wearing 40-year-old Walmart greeter knows that french fries are unhealthy, so does anyone that picks up a cigarette.
Enough advertisements have shoved that down our throat.
Fast-food can cause obesity and heart problems, cigarettes can cause lung cancer, concerts can cause tinnitus or even make one go deaf, and if you fall on a pencil just right I'm sure it can pierce through your eyeball and into your prefrontal cortex.
Tobacco has been with (and economically founded) our country since the beginning. Taking away the right people have to chose what they would like to smoke is only going to lead to an increase in moral restrictions the government should not have a control over in the first place.
"The more prohibitions you have, the less virtuous people will be. Try to make people moral and you lay the groundwork for vice." - Lao-tzu, Tao Te Ching.
It gets funnier every time I see it. :)
ReplyDeleteMOOOOOOST Definately. Except I can make bread in a brick oven and make my own noodles. But that's neither here nor there. Something else that's interesting to think about is that Mc.Donalds is addictive. I think I saw that on Supersize Me. That really does put it on the same level as cigaretts. When people eat Mc.Donalds repeatedly, they begin to become dependant on some of the chemicles used in the food. I remember a particlular scene in the movie when he (the main character) said that he immediatley felt happier and more 'ready' after he finished his big-mac.
ReplyDeleteFood being addictive is something that I plan on bringing up in the research essay. Glad you and Wiggy can make your own noodles. I've always been interested in learning to make sourdough bread, and trying to perfect it. Someday maybe.
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