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In reply to the discussion: Bill proposed in Oregon would make cigarettes prescription-only drugs [View all]dmallind
(10,437 posts)And Christ another one parrotting that absurdly false drink-driving "analogy". Let's remind ourselves of the fallacies here.
Drinking without driving is easy and common. Smoking without exhaling? Not so much on either front.
67% of adults drink. Even if you believe laughable MADD propaganda that includes 50% who were never tested for BAC, passengers, pedestrians and people with error-detection levels, let alone actually assess blame on the "drunk" "driver", there are about 17000 alcohol-related fatalities in the US a year. 70% are the driver themselves.
21% smoke, and a rather more reputable CDC assigned the 55,000 NON smokers (plus 400k or so smokers)
So 3 times as many people drink, yet they kill a third as many people. only a third of whom are not those choosing to drive drunk. So three times as many kill a ninth as many innocent victims, and only do that when they choose to do something else as well as drink, unlike smokers who must exhale poison by necessity.
So yeah that's a comparable risk, in a fucking dream world.