Sorry, Janice, there IS something illogical about Holly's argument. She was arguing that even though the tobacco companies were breaking U.S. law by hiring a biotech company(which has since pled guilty) to grow tobacco with pumped up levels of nicotine, they were doing something beneficial for smokers, so they would smoke fewer cigarettes. She was defending the cigarette companies who were breaking the law.
As most of us know by now, cigarette companies are in the business of delivering a drug, nicotine. The reason that it is illegal here for them to increase the level of nicotine is that more people will tend to smoke more cigarettes the more that they are addicted, and will have even more trouble breaking their drug habits, and the U.S. government has a public health interest in preventing that.
While it is true that people suck harder on low tar and nicotine cigarettes, and sometimes smoke more of them, putting higher levels of nicotine into the body creates a continual craving for that higher level, and the companies are not acting benevolently in your health and financial interests when they get you hooked on higher levels of nicotine.
In other words, cigarette manufacturers are not looking out for the health or pocketbooks of their smokers when they decide to break U.S. law.
Don't you have anything better to do than follow me around, being generally insulting, saying things that are stupid and ignorant, and acting like some kind of parasite? It really is tiresome, and I can only conclude that you have no life. |
