Brickbat: Up in Smoke

As part of what they say is an effort to curb smoking, French officials have proposed banning disposable vapes. "They create a reflex, a gesture, which children get used to, and then end up being drawn to tobacco," said Prime Minister Élisabeth Borne. Officials also said the ban would be good for the environment because the vapes would no longer be tossed away after they are used.

Comments

[Jerryskids]

If the French were really that concerned with the state of the world, they would be working on persuading people to stop being French.

[Public Entelectual]

Captitane Nemo tried that some time ago

[MWAocdoc]

So the French are even worse at making up lame excuses for imposing power on their subjects than Americans are. What else is new?

[Wizard4169]

Sounds like pretty much the same excuse many Americans make: It's for the children! The eternal battle cry of the slaver.

[Megan Brewster]

Hello,

Yes, French officials have proposed a ban on disposable vapes as part of their efforts to combat smoking. This move aims to discourage the use
of single-use electronic cigarettes and reduce the overall consumption of tobacco and nicotine products in the country.

[Nazi-Chipping Warlock]

I'll grant the trash issue is real, but that's more reason to use cartridge systems.

[Adans smith]

I'm waiting on some government official wanting to ban single use condoms.

[flag58]

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[Inigo Montoya]

Given the crashing fertility rates everywhere, and their needing the overpopulation narrative to push their control, err I mean, “environmental” policies—I expect they’ll ban birth control entirely at some point.

[Libertariantranslator]

Fertility rates fall whenever religious fanaticism increases its foothold in the lawmaking powers of any government. "A life worth living" is not the same as a life enslaved by the coercive mythology of stone-age Middle Eastern mystical bigotry. Death in childbed, on the other hand, increases with every Republican elected to the House or Senate of any State. But that really wouldn't interest anybody outside of a large circle of women voters.

[Pro-RKBA Liberal]

High fertility rates are STRONGLY correlated with "religious fanaticism" and "stone-age Middle Eastern mystical bigotry" (really that should probably be "Iron Age Middle Eastern mystical bigotry"). Low fertility rates are STRONGLY correlated with educating and empowering women and girls and secular liberal values.

Also, I don't smoke or vape (or dip or chaw or whatever) and never have, but many of these anti-vaping initiatives by the Powers That Be in various countries are obviously deeply stupid and counterproductive, as well as infringing on the basic right of consenting adults to fuck up their own lives as they see fit.

[Fist of Etiquette]

MAYBE BAN WHITE FLAGS.

Le boom! Vous êtes brûlé. French roasted.

[mad.casual]

They create a reflex, a gesture, which children get used to

Right. When some officious nitwit tells you what to do, you reflexively take a drag, blow the smoke right in their fucking face, and tell them to fuck off.

[The Margrave of Azilia]

There's an exception for smoking in outdoor cafes, right?

[Libertariantranslator]

That half the cost of maintaining a French colonial dictatorship in Cochin-China (Vietnam) was levied by monopoly taxes on salt, alcohol and opium was common knowledge in 1913. Vichy French conservatism is still as hard at work knocking down any and all alternatives to the inhalation of PO-210 from tobacco as is its conservative mixed-economy twin--now sullying the U.S. government's reputation.