• JovialMicrobial@lemm.ee
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    2 months ago

    I’d rather be near someone vaping than a drunk person.

    The vaping I can walk away from, but a drunk driver could kill me.

    I find public drunkenness to be more deadly and problematic than vaping, but that just my opinion regarding public health issues.

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        2 months ago

        No, but they could at least show some consistency.

        At the moment it is all focussed on tobacco and almost none on alcohol except during driving.

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        2 months ago

        It’s not a competition, but priorities. The things that kill innocent people should be higher on the list when writing new policies. Clearly the policies in place are not enough to prevent drunk driving and people are still getting killed from it. It’s still a problem and has been a problem and we should focus on that more than we currently are.

        If people are still driving drunk with it being illegal and we can’t even get that under control with current laws, how can we expect the new laws regarding vaping to be productive?

        And tbh this is quite personal. I’ve lost a friend to drunk driving about every 2 years since I turned 18. My friend’s alcoholic father murdered him when I was younger. I’ve seen nothing good come from that shit and it destroys lives. I don’t see vaping as even remotely comparable to the destruction alcohol can do.