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Because people vote for it? Smoking culture has a lot of knock on effects for third parties who aren't in a position to fix things themselves, children especia

• coldtea 9y ago
  >Because people vote for it? Really, like you ever got asked to vote "for it"? First, it's usually a wholesale vote: you only like this 1-2 things about the party's/candidate's platform? Sorry, you're getting those 200 other things too. And there's just 2 parties, so pick wisely, lest you get the one you really don't want. Not to mention that even for the things people explicitly vote for, they don't get. Empty promises is the name of the game... >Smoking culture has a lot of knock on effects for third parties who aren't in a position to fix things themselves, children especially. I know; I grew up in a house with two smokers. So, like almost everybody pre-90s? They seem to have come out alright...
  • ricardobeat 9y ago
    > The cancer death rate for men and women combined fell 25% from its peak in 1991 to 2014 Attributed mainly to reduction in smoking. Also, the biparty system is peculiar to the US. Other countries have more fine-grained political platforms, and mostly end up with similar policies. Public health is, well, a public matter.
  • ShabbosGoy 9y ago
    It’s easier to have a sin tax than make an actual policy that requires years of research. Nobody explicitly voted for taxing cigarettes, but I do know that there was quite a bit of pressure to ban smoking in public areas. Again, even that policy/ban doesn’t address the root cause, it only prevents people from suffering the effects of secondhand smoke.