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CliffordBigRedDog [he/him] @hexbear.net

2w ago

The USSR forced innocent Kangaroos to smoke comically large cigarettes, i bet you tankies would still defend this

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Oh yeah, well, capitalists forced a camel to smoke cigarettes and advertise them to children.
- Um thats whataboutism
  
  whataboutism
If they can teach kangaroos to smoke think of what they will teach our children
Okay dumb fucking question here. Why did the ussr keep making papirosy/cigarettes? The state owned company made these things, the tobacco was grown on state owned farms, they could just not.
- it would have been a deeply unpopular move. same as if they'd tried to prevent alcohol consumption.
  
  Okay but they did do that though. Lenin instituted prohibition.
- Tobacco addiction is hard to suppress. People already addicted will pay great amounts of money to access black market tobacco if it becomes banned. It can be grown underground like weed
  
  Sure but the same surely applies to alcohol, and they were willing to try not making that.

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