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[mindmetoo]

I started to notice convenience stores had "cigarettes" completely blacked out. At first I thought it was because maybe that store had sold to minors and were banned from selling. Eventually I noticed every convenience store in my town had cigarettes blacked out. Either it's an explicit law against all advertising, including banning the world in total (I wonder if paper dictionaries have had to do the same?), or else stores have simply decided to interpret the law in the extreme, lest they later find themselves in trouble.

[livinginkunsan]

so?

[Czarjorge]

I'm coming to Korea because I'll be able to smoke in bars. God damn liberals... uh, conservatives.... God damn nonsmokers. Freedom my ass.

[mindmetoo]

[philipjames]

Personally I think it's a profoundly progressive development. Good for Ontario. The sooner we stamp out the cigarette industry the better. It won't be mourned.

[cdninkorea]

[philipjames]

Some aspects of freedom are over-rated, especially when freedoms aren't used responsibly. Yes, in principle, one has the right to smoke. But smokers are among the most obnoxious people on earth. Do they respect non-smokers' rights not to inhale their disgusting smoke? No. They smoke anywhere at anytime if they can get away with it. Smokers light up in pubs directly next to non-smokers. THey light up around nonsmokers eatig a meal in a restaurant. They walk down the street smoking away, without a thought for the non-smokers walking behind them is getting a facefull of smoke....And don't get me started on the fucking tobacco companies targeting adults and children alike with addictive substances.

The sooner public smoking and advertizing is banned the better. Smokers and the tobacco industry alike brought this backlash on themselves by their obnoxious behaviour.

[Bingo]

Totally agree. However banning public smoking doesn't go far enough. Parents who smoke in front of their kids are absolutely disgraceful. If you have children you do not even have the right to smoke in your car or in your home. Smokers go on about their rights, and how we shouldn't infringe on them. Yet they don't give a damn about the rights of others not to be assaulted by their smoke. It is especially obnoxious to expose children to tobacco smoke in their own home. Yes, you have the right to smoke. No, you don't have the right to inflict it on others. How can smokers not understand this?

[bacasper]

I hate smoking cigarettes. I think it is a filthy, disgusting, unhealthy, stinky habit. I can't stand to be around it, and certainly not while I am eating.

However, I hate even more a government telling me I can't smoke. How do I know I won't change my mind some day and take it up?

To paraphrase, I may not like what you smoke, but I'll defend to the death your right to smoke it.

BTW, Thank You for Smoking, is a great flick!

[cdninkorea]

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[yawarakaijin]

Come on. It's not like they are banning you from a completely innocuous habit of say wearing a yellow hat or something. Your right to smoke has been proven to cause illnesses and cancers!

Now if the byproducts of this habit were completely contained within your system than fine but I'm sorry, my right not to breathe your second hand smoke, or the right of a child not to be poisoned from a young age or the right of a waitress not to get cancer superceeds your right to smoke.

You are complaining about a ban on advertising as if it is taking away your right to do something. It's not. The fact remains, many people get hooked on cigarettes at a young age before they are really able to comprehend the seriousness of their decision. All the ban on advertising does is slightly limit the chance of an impressionable kid taking up a possibly life threatening habit.

It does not limit any of your freedoms. Other than perhaps your personal freedom to view an advertisement for possibly ,the developed world's number one killer. There are many more important personal freedoms to worry about losing.

[mindmetoo]

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