People can’t smoke. Cars can.

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The essay is titled The Sacred Car and is in the book Upside Down – A Primer for the Looking-Glass World.

Human rights pale beside the rights of machines. In more and more cities, especially in the giant metropolises of the South, people have been banned. Automobiles usurp human space, poison the air, and frequently murder the interlopers who invade their conquered territory – and no one lifts a finger to stop them. Is there a difference between violence that kills by car and that which kills by knife or bullet?


I saw a cigarette ad in a magazine with the required public health warning: ‘Tobacco smoke contains carbon monoxide.’ But the same magazine has several car ads and not one of them warned that car exhaust, nearly always invisible, contains much more carbon monoxide. People can’t smoke. Cars can.

From: https://www.copenhagenize.com/2010/02/upside-down-sacred-car.html

Car warning ads: https://www.copenhagenize.com/2009/07/driving-kills-health-warnings.html
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