Stop smoking by?

[Vagabond]

I saw a sign that said stop smoking by using auri(something)pathy or thereabouts.

What is it? Anybody know?

 

[Orphia Nay]

A quick google reveals:

Auraopathy

Not a word meaning will power, obviously.

 

[Jon.]

Ah. Well, based on the initial post, I was thinking auri = Au = gold.

I was going to guess something like "Give us lots of gold. If you keep smoking, give us more gold until you stop."

 

[Vagabond]

A quick google reveals:

Auraopathy

Not a word meaning will power, obviously.

That is it. I don't smoke. I just thought the word sounded like a pile of woo and looks like from that link I was right.

 

[brodski]

Ah. Well, based on the initial post, I was thinking auri = Au = gold.

I was going to guess something like "Give us lots of gold. If you keep smoking, give us more gold until you stop."

and that's diffrent from being a tobacco company how?

 

[NeilC]

Tobacco companies are merely well-run corporations serving a market and allowing people to exercise their personal freedom to be swayed by billions of dollars of pernicious advertising, falsified research and then become firmly addicted to a dangerous drug. Then they can exercise that important personal freedom whilst poisoning others in pubs. Or at least they could ;-)

 

[brodski]

Tobacco companies are merely well-run corporations serving a market and allowing people to exercise their personal freedom to be swayed by billions of dollars of pernicious advertising, falsified research and then become firmly addicted to a dangerous drug. Then they can exercise that important personal freedom whilst poisoning others in pubs. Or at least they could ;-)

Of course we wouldn't want to dissuade people from poisoning themselves in pubs with one drug, by subjecting them to another

 

[NeilC]

Touche

 

[luchog]

Of course we wouldn't want to dissuade people from poisoning themselves in pubs with one drug, by subjecting them to another

Except, of course, that one drug, when used in moderation (not always the case with the average pub-goer admittedly), has proven health benefits. The other has never been shown to have any significant health benefits at all; and is purely a recreational substance with numerous proven harmful effects.

 

[brodski]

Except, of course, that one drug, when used in moderation (not always the case with the average pub-goer admittedly), has proven health benefits. The other has never been shown to have any significant health benefits at all; and is purely a recreational substance with numerous proven harmful effects.

You'll have to forgive me if I laugh out loud at the idea that publicans are in the health business.