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Some doodoo-brained school decided it was OK to distribute nicotine gum to the students who smoked without parental consent. So they just start handing out boxes upon boxes of nicotine gum to minors. Well, actually it’s a British school, so I don’t really know how old you have to be to be considered an adult, but Europe tends to lean toward the side of extending rights to eleventeen-year-olds. Sweet, delicious, hairless eleventeen-year-olds. Well this 14-year-old ends up chewing 105 pieces of nicotine gum in 25 minutes. I don’t know how many are in a pack, but haysoose maria. If my son chewed 105 pieces of anything in 25 minutes I’d be concerned that was either mentally retarded or a huge dorkus molorkus because the only time a 14-year-old consumes that much of anything is when he is the bud of some joke.

“C’mon, mate, don’t be a tit, eat the sodding fag gum. Bullocks, oy!” O_Q <– Monocle. That is how British people talk, in case you were wondering.

So the lad ends up chewing 105 pieces of nicotine gum, which is the equivalent of smoking 180 Marlboro lights. This gum has more nicotine in it than cigarettes. I remember in the 5th grade some girl wore nicotine patches with smiley faces on it. (Do they make those or was she a liar?) Anyway, I remember my mom telling me she was going to become addicted to nicotine if she didn’t already smoke because it was releasing the stuff into her body. This boy chewed THAT much gum in that small amount of time,  I wonder if he became instantly addicted.

Now this little kid had to be hospitalized. Nicotine isn’t good for you and if that is what is in cigarettes then cigarettes aren’t good for you. I really think they should be banned. Now everyone says it’s a slippery slope, well alcohol is bad for you, well if you eat 105 pieces of bacon your heart might implode too. Blah, blah, blah.

Now, I think it should be either all drugs are legal and we leave it up to the individual to make the choice to moderate for themselves or everything is illegal because they’re all detrimental to health in some way.

But the whole alcohol vs. cigarettes thing. The reason people drink is for social reasons, mostly. Most people aren’t alcoholics. Most people don’t consume enough to have major liver problems.

But let’s consider that even with the bad stuff that comes with alcohol, there are social benefits. Cigarettes offer no pros. People only smoke cigarettes because they think it’s cool, then they get addicted. Now you might say that’s a social thing because you’re trying to fit in, but that has nothing to do with the contents of the cigarettes only with the way cigarettes are perceived. There is no real reason to smoke, any sort of physical gratification you get from smoking only comes after the addiction because your body’s reward system tells your brain you need it. Then you get cancer and bad breath. You can drink once and get the benefits. You can drink once and a while. No one smokes, once in a while, not unless they’re trying to quit smoking.

Cigarettes fail to offer smokers any sort of moderation. You smoke them and you’re addicted. Anyone who smokes them becomes addicted (obviously not instantly, but pretty damn quickly). No genetic predispositions, no long use over time necessary. It is an imminent cause and effect.

Well, anyway, this kid’s mom is pissed at the school because they were distributing “medication” (I guess it would be) without parental consent. Quite obviously, she is right.

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