DBWI: Smoking socially unacceptable

JoeMulk

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How do you get a timeline where the health risks associated with cigarette smoking leads to a backlash which eventually results in smoking being banned in most indoor public places?
 
How do you get a timeline where the health risks associated with cigarette smoking leads to a backlash which eventually results in smoking being banned in most indoor public places?
Well if you want to see a TL with this, then check out my TL The Destiny of America
 
thats just... ASB, every one has always known smoking is bad for you, the tobacco companies that said other wise every one knew they were lying, its never stopped any one from smoking, but really since the 1860s or so every one has smoked every where, hell while its not legal most people even look the other way about kids smoking, I walked by a local elementary school and saw a group of kids around 10-11 were sharing a match smoking some Nat Sherman's
 
thats just... ASB, every one has always known smoking is bad for you, the tobacco companies that said other wise every one knew they were lying, its never stopped any one from smoking, but really since the 1860s or so every one has smoked every where, hell while its not legal most people even look the other way about kids smoking, I walked by a local elementary school and saw a group of kids around 10-11 were sharing a match smoking some Nat Sherman's

Ah.. You must be one of those Anti-Tobaccists then. And isnt smoking legal in the Western World?
 
Ah.. You must be one of those Anti-Tobaccists then.

I don't smoke, but I don't really mind it at all, just trying to point out that every one over 9ish smokes and there's no public place I can think of that people don't smoke here in the US, Europe on the other hand has all those silly getting into people's personal lives anti-smoking campaign
 
I don't smoke, but I don't really mind it at all, just trying to point out that every one over 9ish smokes and there's no public place I can think of that people don't smoke here in the US, Europe on the other hand has all those silly getting into people's personal lives anti-smoking campaign
Well, smoking is bad for you...
 
Well, smoking is bad for you...

yeah, so? the American Constitution has always been held to give people the rights to take whatever drugs you like, the ham-fisted "Harrison Narcotics Tax Act" was ruled unconstitutional almost at once, no real try has been made after that.
 
I understand that tobacco used to be a lot worse before they started experimenting with "Clean Tobacco" back in the 1930's. My grandparents told me how you couldn't go into some buildings because they stank so bad. Today, it's really hard to tell when someone lights up, such as a fellow passenger on the airplane, or a child in the classroom. It just smells like whatever artificial scents they put into the tobacco, if any.

The other issue was the discovery of the wonder drug unobtainamine back in the 1950's. A universally efficacious treatment for all allergies, without any side effects whatsoever, is the only thing that allows many people to happily smoke alongside their peers without having horrible, even deadly, reactions. It also helps people who are only mildly irritated by the smoke to be a lot more comfortable.

Although, I imagine if the Federal government took a more proactive role on things seen as "public health risks", there might be some minimal legislation against smoking in certain public places. Of course, this would also probably lead to putting safety belts in cars -- or even declaring laws which require them to drive in an organized manner -- making people wear helmets on motorcycles, and requiring the apothecaries and chirurgeons to have licenses.

I would imagine that they'd probably have government bureaucracies instituted to study things like how many people die of different things per year, so they could know how effective those laws were.
 
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I hear Obama doesn't smoke. Was that controversial during the campaign? He's enough of an elitist as it is!
 
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