re: UK parliament one step closer to passing landmark smoking ban

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The government that foots the bill for its citizens healthcare is mitigating the ridiculous cost of care for tobacco-related conditions.

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Ahh the old control through compassion.


First comes the universal health care because it's a "right"

Then maybe we tell you, you can't smoke. It's so bad for you and we know better.

Then those pesky cows and all that heart disease it causes and all of the greenhouse gases they release- we really need to reduce the meat consumption so that we can reduce our healthcare cost.

Then somehow a food shortage has happened and folks get really unhappy and take to the streets. But it's not our fault, it's those greedy farmers who simply will not share their fair amount.

But that's ok, we at the government are always fair so we'll seize a few of the farms that way we all can eat and no one goes hungry.

For some reason that's not working super well but it can't be our fault, maybe farmers are just so much more greedy than we originally thought. So we'll take over food production to make sure no one goes hungry and no one is eating or smoking or drinking anything that could raise our healthcare cost to high.

Why are all these people so mad at us and protesting don't the know we're helping? Maybe it's time to just put a few restrictions on these misinformers who dissent.

It's totally not communism at all, it's different because the name is different and we're just taking control of your decisions because we care about you and your health like SOOO much....