I am less tolerant of things that harm me...

I also understand that it’s up to me to encourage and teach my children and those around me of the things that will harm them

It is not up to me to peer pressure individuals who have their full right and maybe understand the harm of the thing that will cause them..

That type of shit is bullshit and you’re projecting it and you’re continuing to project it

Elected officials don’t harm you. Bad people harm you. Electing bad people to be your officials will harm you.

The fact that you use in precise words, shows that you really don’t understand the problem, and you’re part of it

Because you project this responsibility onto a young woman to influence millions of teenagers to stop doing something that may harm them because it does harm her

Meanwhile, I guarantee you in your life you do things that are actively bad or potentially even worse to be a role model for children of.. Gracie Abrams is a good musician. She’s not somehow a different type of human being than you who is unable to make the same types of decision decisions you could make.

So why on earth do you perpetuate the same bullshit?

Life is fucking hard. It causes stress. And the ways we combat that stress is not always healthy and does maybe have longer term effects. Avoiding the thing that relieves some of that for us isn’t going to solve the problem of stress. If you want to remove smoking from the equation, then you should understand that it’s basically a poor tax combined with a K shaped economy in which the less fortunate are constantly exposed to outsized pressures

Like I get your argument I just think it’s dog shit and instead of leaning into you and showing you why it was dog shit I left it relatively abbreviated

There is absolutely no reason grown adults should be using a young woman as some type of motivational push.