> Not only is the tobacco industry directly harming people by selling them poison Everything's a poison depending on the dose. The same could be said for alcoh

> Not only is the tobacco industry directly harming people by selling them poison Everything's a poison depending on the dose. The same could be said for alcohol or junk food. > just look at the ground next time you're walking outside to see all the cigarette butts Or soda bottles or fast food wrappers or oil dripping from cars or... > and then they lobby to push for these retardants to be pushed onto the furnishing industry This is a result of TB117 being signed by CA gov Jerry Brown in 1975 [1], more than 10 years after the surgeon general's report about cigarettes and lung cancer. If any lobbyists are to blame I would tend to look at the chemical companies. What's more, California required the retardant, so furniture companies decided instead of making california-specific furniture, they'd put the retardant into all furniture. There's at least some blame on them as well. > This is a tax everyone is paying for some smokers to get their fix. I'd argue it's a tax everyone pays because California's government is/was run amok. [1] https://www.kqed.org/science/11318/its-official-toxic-flame-retardants-no-longer-required-in-furniture https://www.kqed.org/science/11318/its-official-toxic-flame-...