Open Smoke Shop?
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- mikotondria30
Here's a little illustration of smoking that occurred to me recently:
There are around 4 million deaths in the world, per annum, directly attributable to people smoking tobacco, and that's from around 6 million tons of annual global production.
Thus, if you see a 50 ton semi truck full of cigarettes, simply imagine 50 x (4/6) = 33 people stood in the back of the truck, all condemned to die from its contents. Or imagine 16 cars each with 2 people in lined up next to the truck and off down the road. Not much over a ton of tobacco kills somebody. Every ton of tobacco.
How much would you plan on selling ? One ton per year, 10 ?
Get a bit person shaped chart and gradually color it in from the ground up according to the amount of tobacco you've sold. Hooray ! You've reached the top; statistically one person has died from what you've sold.
That's the reality of the ethical decision you've got to make when you decide to sell people tobacco. I've taken care not to use any judgmental language in my illustration, and yes I know - I am a pompous ex-smoking prick who's also sat with people as cancer has slowly eaten their brain and caused them to shudder in agony hallucinating until death freed them from their yellowing boney prisons, but hey - if you don't sell it to these people someone else will, it's not like people stop smoking that easily. You'd all be adults operating within the law, making responsible, legal decisions about the transaction, and you wouldn't even be obliged to set up the coloring-in death outline thing where people could see it.
Or you could think of something else to do, Portland's a great place, very fertile, non-statistical slow-suicide enablement ideas should do well there too.- ‹‹ "pompous ex-smoking prick"
hahahahahahahaepill - I'll say it first :)
Truth still stands about the 1.5 tons per death. :)mikotondria3 - smoke different.. smoke green.. chew your xtc and your mesc.
:)epill - i get your point. but you could say the same for fast food places that sell heart disease and diabetes through a drive through window.CanHasQBN
- ..thru window.CanHasQBN
- Don't open one of those either, then.mikotondria3
- i will, out of spite, and i'll name it McOtondria3CanHasQBN
- hahahah :)
I'll be your first customer !mikotondria3
- ‹‹ "pompous ex-smoking prick"