• ciwolsey
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    119 days ago

    When you smoke its not just your own health you ruin. It’s the same selfish thinking antivaxers have.

    • @julietOscarEcho
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      119 days ago

      That’s not a terrible analogy, but doesn’t resounding support a ban. It’s virtually unimaginable (and I suspect more or less legally impossible) that vaccination would be obligatory.

      • @[email protected]
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        119 days ago

        Even though it has been in the past, and lead to the eradication of small pox.

        And should be again to help eradicate measles, polio and many other very harmful, but easily preventable diseases.

        But let’s not go there. I suspect there’s more of them than smokers, but quite a large overlap on a Venn diagram.

        • @julietOscarEcho
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          219 days ago

          Yeah, what was legal/feasible 100 years ago might not be the best guide today. I mean no reasonable person would deny it would be better for public health.

          That’s actually an interesting question. All the people I know who still smoke are left leaning and probably pro vaccine. I guess I don’t know many of the main smoking population (older lower socioeconomic status) so maybe there there’s more than coincidental overlap. It would be coherent I guess for the freedom over everything type people I suppose, depressingly.

      • TWeaK
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        119 days ago

        Vaccination in the past has been obligatory, eg for polio.

        • @julietOscarEcho
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          018 days ago

          So has lobotomy for certain mental health patients. What’s your point?