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Tobacco control has been a big fail, all that has really happened is that government and tobacco became co-dependent. People are still dying from tobacco relate
by indymike 6y ago
Tobacco control has been a big fail, all that has really happened is that government and tobacco became co-dependent. People are still dying from tobacco related disease (I've lost close family members to this), and the product is sold everywhere. I would hope we do not model anything on "tobacco control".
- throwaways885 6y agoIdk, the younger generation see it as filthy and don't go near it for the most part. Seems to have finally paid off.
- bongoman37 6y agoThe younger generation is rapidly cozying up to smoking marijuana.
- dathos 6y agoDo you have some data for that? And I wonder if and how this affects the big problem we have with alcohol abuse at any age.
- MonkeyClub 6y agoFinding data for this is a walk in the park (ha ha).
- gruez 6y ago>Tobacco control has been a big fail Can you elaborate on this? Short of treating tobacco like heroin, what other measures should the government have taken to curb tobacco use?
- throwaway210222 6y ago"what other measures should the government have taken to curb tobacco use? " Make people with traces of nicotine in their blood ineligible for free health care. Including emergency care. Focus their minds.
- altcognito 6y agoWhile I don't think we would disagree that cigarettes are still sold and there are still smokers, the problem is a fraction of what it was. That's not fail at all.
- indymike 6y agoIts taken us 400+ years to get to this point. The science was in on smoking in 1948. It has taken over 70 years to get what progress we have had. That's a lot of lives cut short and a lot of suffering.