16522, pollution vs. cigarrettes Posted by guerilla_love, Wed Mar-28-01 06:53 AM
the thing is that things become complicated once they involve bodies. have you ever been addicted before? do you know how addiction works? do you know how hard it is to fight it?
smoking is often taken up by people who:
a.) are uneducated about it's effects
or
b.) don't really give a shit about it's effects (e.g. teenagers and/or people who don't hold their health in high regard)
smoking needs to be addressed differently if it's gonna be changed, and it's too deeply embedded globally to end quickly or easily. pollution can, in most cases, be eliminated by substitutions once the proper financial rewards are in place. but smoking....... man, that's an altogether different issue. it requires, among other things, making people aware/care about their own health more than they currently do-
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