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You REALLY want to get rid of smoking? 1. Outlaw tobacco production and importation. 2. Pay smokers to stop - with regular drug testing. Of course this plan i
by morninglight 6y ago
You REALLY want to get rid of smoking?
1. Outlaw tobacco production and importation.
2. Pay smokers to stop - with regular drug testing.
Of course this plan is politically impossible in a country that cannot even agree on face masks during a pandemic. And that is why smoking will be here for a very long time.
- dehrmann 6y ago> 2. Pay smokers to stop - with regular drug testing. Or charge them more for health insurance. It's effectively the same thing, but more politically palatable.
- aerotwelve 6y agoA consequence of this is to encourage smokers to lie to their doctors about their addiction so their insurance company won't find out that they smoke. I don't think this is desirable from a public health aspect - smokers need more preventative care, not less. I know that we already do this with the ACA in America, and this is the exact result I've found amongst old colleagues and friends who smoked regularly. They were terrified of their doctors finding out that they smoked (for fear that they'd be permanently priced out of private health insurance for the rest of their lives), so they weren't able to ask for prescription drugs that could have helped them quit.