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It's a heinous product that does horrible things to people, so good. This is an industry that intentionally targets children to sell them addictive, carcinogeni
by code_duck 7y ago
It's a heinous product that does horrible things to people, so good. This is an industry that intentionally targets children to sell them addictive, carcinogenic, toxic, foul-smelling items for profit.
- conanbatt 7y agoYou could say the same about cheese, coffee, cars, alcohol, etc. How about having to put a picture of a pregnant woman being run over on the hood of every tesla, to remind about the murderous and gruesome reality of the manslaughters of the autoindustry? The difference is not the product, its the popular sentiment that legitimizes a terrible overreach of state power.
- code_duck 7y agoAs far as the overall utility to harmfulness ratio, I'm sure cigarettes lose compared to those products. It's like comparing crack to cell phones. Yes, they are both somewhat addictive. However, one has demonstrable utility, and the other doesn't, even for narcoleptics. The discussion of whether the use of state power to regulate products is appropriate is a potentially lengthy political discussion that isn't worth starting here.
- 300bps 7y agoYou could say the same about cheese, coffee, cars, alcohol, etc. No. Cigarettes have no positive purpose. They are 100% negative and a society is well served by discouraging their use. Everything you listed has a positive purpose with the mere potential of being misused.
- conanbatt 7y agoYou can usually plot people's beliefs on what deserves punishing imagery with this convenient formula: Uses it: don't punish Doens't: punish
- collyw 7y agoIntentionally targets children? The fact that it is illegal for children is what is going to give them the most appeal.
- conanbatt 7y agoThat's not fixed with bad imagery. Thats another problem that happen also to cars, bikes, alcohol, etc.
- code_duck 7y agoThey geared their advertising specifically towards adolescents. Any targeted group subjected to to advertising is affected by it. In the case of children, they are especially vulnerable to advertising. In much of Europe, it's not legal to advertise anything directly to children, much less addictive drugs.