• ██████████@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    bro if you think selling tobacco a product i both deeply enjoy and literally need to function sends peoope to Hell you need to go to confession

    one catholic to another

    • Ashelyn@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      11 months ago

      I don’t understand this take. You can enjoy a product but still understand that it brings more harm than good to society as a whole. I’m guessing tobacco is something you “need to function” because of the very fact that you regularly used it in the first place, probably at least partially due to the industry’s predatory practices.

      Don’t get me wrong, withdrawal is an absolute nightmare I am blessed to never have experienced firsthand, but cases of lifelong dependence are why those companies should burn in the first place. If there were a way to get you and others like you what you need while wiping the rest of the industry off the face of this planet, I’d do it in a heartbeat.

      If you genuinely enjoy smoking and believe tobacco has enriched your life, more power to you. Perhaps someone selling tobacco to people in your situation doesn’t bring harm, but selling that same product to someone who’s never smoked before and might potentially become hooked for life? Yeah, straight to hell. Fuck them.

    • Jax@sh.itjust.works
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      11 months ago

      They aren’t talking about you the user, they’re talking about the ones making the cigarettes.

      Also, I’m pretty sure suicide is a grievous sin in Catholicism no? Is the difference here that it takes a really long time? Or maybe it doesn’t count as suicide because without that cursed knowledge of cigarettes being bad for you, you’d never know you were killing yourself?

      I’m just wondering where we draw the line here.

    • x4740N@lemmy.world
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      11 months ago

      You may want to chat with someone about that qualified to help you because that sounds like a potential addiction based on your wording