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TLDR: Sweden focuses on harm reduction, had “snus” as an alternative, among other things.
Autonomy over your own body is one thing and you’re right that it’s your own body that you’re destroying but ‘why should you care’ isn’t always in society’s best interests.
The subsequent ramifications on healthcare are a lot deeper and longer lasting than just their body. One more healthy body is one less burden on the healthcare system which in a lot of societies are under a lot of strain, and it’s one more able body contributing to economical / societal advancement. So it is actually a double positive.
But that’s just how socialised health care works anyway? Everybody pays for the shitty decisions of everybody else? You pay for someones nicote addiction, he pays for someones sport accident, they pay for the next one who eats too much sugar and burgers, they pay for the other’s driving fast and crashing addiction…so, a ‘just’ health care system is around the corner, when nobody does anything anymore?
Autonomy over your own body is one thing and you’re right that it’s your own body that you’re destroying but ‘why should you care’ isn’t always in society’s best interests.
The subsequent ramifications on healthcare are a lot deeper and longer lasting than just their body. One more healthy body is one less burden on the healthcare system which in a lot of societies are under a lot of strain, and it’s one more able body contributing to economical / societal advancement. So it is actually a double positive.
But that’s just how socialised health care works anyway? Everybody pays for the shitty decisions of everybody else? You pay for someones nicote addiction, he pays for someones sport accident, they pay for the next one who eats too much sugar and burgers, they pay for the other’s driving fast and crashing addiction…so, a ‘just’ health care system is around the corner, when nobody does anything anymore?