Legally speaking, leider ja. But we don't have to accept that framing just because it says so on the piece of American toilet paper legal parchment that is Citizens United
I don't understand this take. You can enjoy a product but still understand that it brings more harm than good to society as a whole. I'm guessing tobacco is something you "need to function" because of the very fact that you regularly used it in the first place, probably at least partially due to the industry's predatory practices.
Don't get me wrong, withdrawal is an absolute nightmare I am blessed to never have experienced firsthand, but cases of lifelong dependence are why those companies should burn in the first place. If there were a way to get you and others like you what you need while wiping the rest of the industry off the face of this planet, I'd do it in a heartbeat.
If you genuinely enjoy smoking and believe tobacco has enriched your life, more power to you. Perhaps someone selling tobacco to people in your situation doesn't bring harm, but selling that same product to someone who's never smoked before and might potentially become hooked for life? Yeah, straight to hell. Fuck them.
Tis a shame the uncles don't come with a real estate empire to house your personal army of alcoholics in. Imagine the political sway you could have by threatening to put them all loose on downtown at the same time? There's an infinite amount of them! It would destroy the city!
Interesting, I've come to understand those prefixes to have the opposite meaning. I looked into it, and apparently the actual usage of bi vs semi is not super consistent, and has been historically ambiguous and especially difficult because of how confidently people tend to believe others share their understanding on the words.
You'll notice a lot of the words you listed include both "twice per" and "once every other" in their dictionary definitions. Of course, dictionaries are descriptive and not prescriptive indicators of language, and I think it's fine to argue one's case to keep the terminology consistent at least within the bounds of a conversation.
I guess the takeaway is that it's good to have a context under which the terms are consistent, like with banking, but also important to understand that there are other contexts with definitions that differ, and that those different contexts aren't incorrect.
New diy orchi procedure just dropped??