For the tobacco piece, the strongest argument I've heard in favour of keeping it legal is to avoid the creation of a black market.

I don't know about other countries, but at least in Australia where the tobacco tax is super high there is now a growing market for black market tobacco, with all the criminality and safety concerns that go along with other illicit drug trafficking activities, and that's without outright banning the stuff.

You don't even have to remove the windows, you can just board over top of them. If they break, the glass isn't going anywhere, but they probably won't break.

In ppm ranges, making them completely ineffective.

Methylgyoxal is utter marketing mumbo jumbo for alternative medicine shills.

Not to mention, even at antibacterial concentrations, neither hydrogen peroxide nor MGO would have any effect at all abhobt cold like symptoms.

“Approx. 13% of adults in the US smoke cigarettes. Most prevalent cause of preventable morbidity and mortality in the US.”

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My body, my choice.

Because banning anything only creates a black market for it, which drives up the "bad" thing's price and violence associated with it.

It's not the government's job to protect you from stabbing yourself in the eyeball with a fork.

I hardly drink or smoke anymore, but every once in a while when I do, who are you to tell me I can't?

The government did its job by labeling it as being harmful, that's good enough.

Support your last sentence.

Alcohol use causes about 140,000 deaths each year in the US. https://www.cdc.gov/alcohol/features/excessive-alcohol-deaths.html#:~:text=More%20than%20140%2C000%20people%20die,in%20the%20U.S.%20each%20year.

Cigarettes cause 480,000 deaths in the US each year. https://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/data_statistics/fact_sheets/health_effects/tobacco_related_mortality/index.htm#:~:text=Cigarettes%20and%20Death,-Cigarette%20smoking%20causes&text=More%20than%20480%2C000%20deaths%20annually,including%20deaths%20from%20secondhand%20smoke)

Over 600,000 deaths a year is far more than a rounding error.

It should be the government's job to make impacts well known and control access a little bit. 12 year old should not have the access.

The same applies to sex education. Educate, but don't restrict.

Body autonomy. People have a certain right to make decisions about their bodies. Those decisions shouldn’t put others at risk (hence drinking and driving laws, smoking with children in the car, etc). It’s not a perfect system by any means and I think we could generally do a lot better but we should also protect peoples freedom to make choices about their own bodies.

But you don’t know if the sink will break that year or how it will break. So you’re incentivized to budget for it breaking in the most expensive way possible every year just in case it does break you can cover it. And when it doesn’t break you still gotta spend that money because you budgeted it. You might go 10 years with no breaks wasting $1,000. But in year 11 years be glad that you have that $100 to cover it when it actually breaks that year.

The effects of tobacco are relatively isolated to those who use it. Granted it does raise overall costs for healthcare. But in the US, we often control second hand effects by regulating, heavily, where you can smoke (at least in public, and at the local/state levels).

Alcohol, is generally only dangerous when overused/abused. The poison is in the dose, not the substance. So we do criminalize and regulate how you can interact in public while under the influence. You can’t drive or operate machinery because those are the primary ways that alcohol will affect someone else.

But in general aside from community effects, we tend to think that people are responsible for their own individual health. Granted we do criminalize and ban other drugs that tend to be more addictive and dangerous. But I think that’s simply because tobacco and alcohol are just old and are institutions (at least in “western” cultures). There’s just not enough will to fully ban them.

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> There only long term solution is to remove the source of hair, and that's usually illegal.

It may be illegal, but that doesn't stop nature from removing my hair from the source.

You don't have enough info and are sounding like an idiot yourself.

Generally there will be an ROI target, so for every $1 invested, the company expects say $1.10. If you have been averaging a ROI of 9% during the year (so a $1.09 return for every $1 invested), you definitely still want to invest the extra money.

No business has a target of breakeven. There is a hurdle rate they are trying to hit that is a positive return.

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On top of this, because how fixed costs work, spending the last $100 in your budget will usually give you a better return than spending the first $100.

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Clogs aren’t always caused by hair though

Alcohol in moderation can actually be good for you. I do mean moderation though. And the world would not be the way it is today without beer.

Tobacco on the other hand, I just don’t get. There are no health benefits. It’s purposely filled with shit that does even more harm to you, and it’s made to be addictive. The fact that the government makes a fuckload of taxes from it should not be an issue. That’s like saying a criminal should be allowed to keep robbing banks because they rely on the income. And when you consider the strain the diseases from smoking put on the healthcare system, surely there’s some kind of trade off.

Cotton pillowcases grow and collect bacteria easier and faster than polyester ones do. So if you are using cotton pillowcases and haven’t washed them recently, that’s probably why you’re getting acne. If you switch to polyester or silk or synthetic fabrics, you’ll see your acne clear up quickly

See this article

So non-rusty nails in people’s heads is ok?

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Fascinating. The same sound, I assume? Or different?

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The alcohol and tobacco industries spend a lot of money on political lobbying. That means they donate tons and tons of money to politicians, to make sure they never ban those products.