Re: CHAT: postcodes

Jake X wrote:
>
> > > Which, as always brings me to a tangent. Talking to
> > > my friends, who know more
> > > about these things than I do... in the US, it's a
> > > crime for someone under age
> > > to be in possession of alcohol *at all*, isn't it?
> >
> > Yes. And since it's WAR, I guess they'd be POWs... ;)
> >
>But not cigarettes (which makes no sense). Which do you think is more
>unhealthy?
More unhealthy in what respect? Toxicity? The amount of health detoriation
the average user suffers?

At any rate, alcohol causes greater costs to society (in the Western
countries, at least).

(My personal irrational opinion is that anything that involves smoking or
sniffing stuff must be worse than anything that involves drinking or eating
stuff.)

>Well, anyway, more than half of my underage friends smoke, and
>I'm used to putting up with it.
I tend to assume a demonstratively upwind position when my smoking friends
light the things. Still, few of my closer friends smoke, certainly less than
the 20% proportion of the entire Swedish population that smokes. High
education and nerdy life-style probably explain that.

                                                 Andreas

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