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The water utility is anything but a free market. It's not a very good analogy.

• TeMPOraL 9y ago
  It isn't a free market for a reason.
• MBCook 9y ago
  Given how addictive nicotine is does the free market even work? Isn't the pressure the addicts feel to get more nicotine a HUGE external force on the market that may distort it until it doesn't work? After all cigarettes didn't become healthier once the dangers were know (long ago). The government had to step in. To say nothing of tobacco companies acting like a cartel.
  • Consultant32452 9y ago
    The most deadly addictive substance on Earth is sugar, it kills far more than nicotine could ever hope to. But for some reason the FDA doesn't care to restrict everyone's sugar intake. As far as I'm concerned all we needed was appropriate tort reform which would allow people who get cancer to sue tobacco companies for damages (before the warnings).
  • greenshackle2 9y ago
    Nicotine is not super highly addictive, as far as drugs go. Tobacco smoke is. It has MAOIs (addictive) and possibly other drugs.