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How would you successfully eradicate the use of alcohol and cigarettes?
How would you successfully eradicate the use of alcohol and cigarettes?
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How would you successfully eradicate the use of alcohol and cigarettes?
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30-07-2012, 09:52 AM
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RE: How would you successfully eradicate the use of alcohol and cigarettes?
Haven't they taken enough freedoms away? You would like clones of who knows what. Fuck that shit!
History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government. This marks the lowest grade of ignorance, of which their political as well as religious leaders will always avail themselves for their own purpose. ~ Thomas Jefferson |
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30-07-2012, 09:59 AM
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RE: How would you successfully eradicate the use of alcohol and cigarettes?
(30-07-2012 08:20 AM)KidCharlemagne1962 Wrote: Good grief....why? Wanted to "like" twice. I sure do love a good cigar. I think I'd be an aficionado if I were a rich man. |
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30-07-2012, 09:59 AM
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RE: How would you successfully eradicate the use of alcohol and cigarettes?
Fuck you; there's no way you or anyone is going to get rid of my monkey mind. Drugs are at the top of the survival list - always have been - since early caveman days.
Food & water If no food & water, then drugs Shelter If no shelter, then drugs Companion If no companion, then drugs After that ... shit gets kind of murky ... probably some stuck up asshole got bored and made up religion. Well, my work here is done for now... off to my cup-o-drug... 
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30-07-2012, 10:17 AM
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RE: How would you successfully eradicate the use of alcohol and cigarettes?
(30-07-2012 09:59 AM)kim Wrote: Food & water Fixed that for ya 
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30-07-2012, 10:20 AM
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RE: How would you successfully eradicate the use of alcohol and cigarettes?
Well, that goes without saying. usually.
There is no shame in not knowing. The problem arises when irrational thought and attendant behavior fill the vacuum left by ignorance. ~ Neil deGrasse Tyson Perception is up for grabs, and truth seems to be the one precious thing, that no one wants anyone to find. |
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30-07-2012, 10:22 AM
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RE: How would you successfully eradicate the use of alcohol and cigarettes?
(30-07-2012 06:46 AM)poolboyg88 Wrote: note: no answers saying that they'd just hook up society to cheaper and more readily available drugs. Can you please provide a reason for asking a question like that? As you might have guessed from the replies, it's a rather unpopular idea. The brain is affected by all sorts of chemicals from the foods we eat. It isn't just about things that we can easily categorise as "drugs". Pay attention to your mood swings when you change (in either direction) the amount of sugar that you consume. We're reproductive bags of chemicals. |
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30-07-2012, 10:23 AM
(This post was last modified: 30-07-2012 10:36 AM by KidCharlemagne1962.)
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RE: How would you successfully eradicate the use of alcohol and cigarettes?
(30-07-2012 09:59 AM)Stark Raving Wrote:(30-07-2012 08:20 AM)KidCharlemagne1962 Wrote: Good grief....why? They are a real pleasure, I know the good ones are pricey but every now and then it's a good treat. " Generally speaking, the errors in religion are dangerous; those in philosophy only ridiculous." David Hume |
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30-07-2012, 10:33 AM
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RE: How would you successfully eradicate the use of alcohol and cigarettes?
(30-07-2012 06:46 AM)poolboyg88 Wrote: note: no answers saying that they'd just hook up society to cheaper and more readily available drugs. I agree with everyone above... but I also would like to know why you would want to do this. What's the purpose? I drink anywhere between a dram of whiskey and a tumbler-full about once a week. It's not much, but I enjoy it. I used to drink more, but never so much that I was drunk frequently (I can count on one hand the number of times I've been drunk). Why would you take this away from me? Even if I got drunk every day and it didn't affect anyone but me, again I ask why? Medical costs? You disagree with their use from a moral perspective? Some other reason? I don't get it. 
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30-07-2012, 10:34 AM
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RE: How would you successfully eradicate the use of alcohol and cigarettes?
(30-07-2012 10:17 AM)Red Celt Wrote:(30-07-2012 09:59 AM)kim Wrote: Food & water Dude, we may not agree on gun issues, but so far, for pretty much everything else, you read my mind. I was thinking the exact same thing there. Lmao And "reproductive bags of chemicals" is definitely entering into my repertoire of terminology to describe humans. |
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30-07-2012, 10:37 AM
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RE: How would you successfully eradicate the use of alcohol and cigarettes?
(30-07-2012 10:33 AM)kineo Wrote:(30-07-2012 06:46 AM)poolboyg88 Wrote: note: no answers saying that they'd just hook up society to cheaper and more readily available drugs. Dram? Dram? Since when did you turn British? 
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