>>98306666>>98306588Now if you want to get down to what you're technically suggesting, and that's asphyxiating your enemy?
Yeah. Used to be done. It worked too.
It's called mustard gas. The biggest reason we don't still use it isn't ethical concerns, though that's part of it. The concern is that it spreads quick and fast and can get out of control of the people who use it and hit non-agitating actors real quick, and even end up in some nasty friendly fire if the wind direction changes on you.
Likewise with biological warfare. It has a bad way of not just biting you in the ass, but, continuing to work long after the fighting has stopped and hitting your buddies and pretty soon you end up with a worldwide epidemic because you just wanted to wipe out one stubborn battalion, nobody has the cure, and now your country has it too because you have no control over where it goes after you let it go.
And that goes double for smoking. Army rations don't have cigarettes in them anymore for a reason.
I mean, we can talk about CIA operations about trying to topple regimes with all kinds of long term sabotage of the society. But in the end, the ideas that get thrown out are pretty out there and typically don't work.
