Cigarettes are Banned!

Maldives permanently bans smoking for anyone born after 2006​

The Maldives has become the first country in the world to ban tobacco use for an entire generation, after a new law took effect Saturday.

Under the rule, anyone born on or after Jan. 1, 2007, is permanently banned from buying, using or being sold cigarettes or any other tobacco products in the country, the Maldives Health Ministry announced.

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That addiction cost me a hell of a lot of money and maybe my health...

Fatrat said:

That addiction cost me a hell of a lot of money and maybe my health...

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Unknown, is the value of relaxation that a nicotine hit gives you when you're in the middle of stress you can't fight.

Smoking, the habit, didn't come out of nowhere. It wasn't that Big Tobacco just arose like a monster and forced cigarettes on people. Native peoples (who didn't have much free-floating stress) used it ceremonially. European explorers and traders found it soothing; brought it back; and - again because it soothed, it caught on quickly.

Big Tobacco came out of smaller tobaccanists' businesses. THEY came about because people WANTED tobacco.

Harmful for health? Absolutely. When you're pulling double-shift at a 9-1-1 call center and you're just rubbed raw, a smoke break is (used to be) a welcome chance to decompress.

I don't smoke; but I chewed nicotine gum when working insane shifts on the ray-rode.

For anyone interested.

Smoking Cessation

- https://news.va.gov/tag/smoking-cessation/

- https://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/tobacco-features/quitlines.html

- https://www.lung.org/quit-smoking/join-freedom-from-smoking

- https://www.cancer.org/cancer/risk-prevention/tobacco/guide-quitting-smoking.html

- https://tobaccofreeflorida.com/

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Casey Jones said:

European explorers and traders found it soothing; brought it back; and - again because it soothed, it caught on quickly.

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To be fair though, that's how addictive substances work.

Afterall, people don't start using and become addicted due to it making them feel worse than they already did.

Casey Jones said:

I don't smoke; but I chewed nicotine gum when working insane shifts on the ray-rode

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Speaking of, are crews allowed to smoke on the train?

Joe King said:

Speaking of, are crews allowed to smoke on the train?

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Officially, no.

In fact, it's just-about universal. For the same reasons - with 12-14 hour shifts (you work the job, terminal to terminal - not the timeclock) you are GONNA be tired. And fatigue can be a killer. Just about every train accident (discounting gay teen lovers on the cellphone) involving human error, can be traced back to fatigue.

Not officially, of course.

Conrail's middle-management came off the crafts; they knew what was up. Philadelphia would issue an insane order, like Smoking-Is-Forbidden, and they'd smirk and nod. And ignore it.

CSX's management came out of the Business-Management track of state schools. They had NO CLUE. So once they took over, smokers had to be careful not to let anyone in a terminal see them huffing on a stick.

It could be a problem when you had a "Check Ride" (six-month qualification review) with the Road Foreman. Some were cool. Some came off other Seaboard or Chessie properties, and HATED us Ex-Cons (former Conrail) with a demonic passion.

We made them look bad - they were farked up; we were the smallest Eastern Class 1 Road, but the most profitable. That's why CSX and Norfolk Southern had to double-team to buy us up and destroy us.

Bay Area town enacts total and complete tobacco ban​

The Tiburon town council made history on Wednesday when it passed the strictest and most comprehensive tobacco and nicotine sales ban in the country. The ordinance passed unanimously, with Vice Mayor Jon Welner absent, enacting a complete ban on all tobacco and nicotine products in the southern Marin County town — including cigarettes, cigars, vapes and other e-smoking devices — as well as deliveries of any tobacco goods.

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Some AH was smoking while I was.pumping gas today. Now I know why it was $2.32 a gallon.

Remember the 100's of billions the states sued the tobacco companies for? States all got paid and then took away our right to sue tobacco companies. WTF? Any smokers here ever get a cut of that cash?
I still smoke and have to pay insane taxes for that privilege. The billions the states got certainly didn't slow down their taxation of them.

Cigarlover said:

Remember the 100's of billions the states sued the tobacco companies for? States all got paid and then took away our right to sue tobacco companies. WTF? Any smokers here ever get a cut of that cash?
I still smoke and have to pay insane taxes for that privilege. The billions the states got certainly didn't slow down their taxation of them.

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Do you smoke cigarettes?

Viking said:

Do you smoke cigarettes?

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Yes, All natural American spirit

When I was a teen, one of my friend's dad (who smoked and had been in the military) told me once that virtually everyone (at least the enlisted ) smoked, because when it was smoke break, those that didn't smoke didn't get a break.

So everyone who didn't smoke prior to, started.

Had a girlfriend who smoked. That was pretty nasty. I just never had the urge. However, I do enjoy an occasional cigar. I like the large ring gauge Nubs with maduro wrappers.

Ex smoker here, I had a smoker sit near me at the doctor's office, she stank. I talked with a nurse there and she told me what funny was the number of people who said they didn't smoke while reeking of it. I never realized how bad I'd must of smelled.

Joe King said:

When I was a teen, one of my friend's dad (who smoked and had been in the military) told me once that virtually everyone (at least the enlisted ) smoked, because when it was smoke break, those that didn't smoke didn't get a break.

So everyone who didn't smoke prior to, started.

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Was still that way, as of 35-40 years ago.

First thing a new recruit arriving, learned, was to take up smoking. Because that meant long breaks and other accommodation.

I remember when you could smoke in elelvators, in airplanes and at the movies.

Here, in the proletariat of Washington, as of January 1, 2026, imposes a 95% tax on the sales price of most tobacco and nicotine products, including cigars, pipe tobacco, chewing tobacco, e-cigarettes, and nicotine pouches. So now yer $3.50 a pack ciggys cost you seven bucks.
No need to ban cigarettes - heh.

Bottom Feeder said:

Here, in the proletariat of Washington, as of January 1, 2026, imposes a 95% tax on the sales price of most tobacco and nicotine products, including cigars, pipe tobacco, chewing tobacco, e-cigarettes, and nicotine pouches. So now yer $3.50 a pack ciggys cost you seven bucks.
No need to ban cigarettes - heh.

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Don't you have Injun Reservations, in your People's Republic?

Don't the injuns have a franchise, to sell tobaccy tax-free?

I know they have in many other states.