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Tobacco kills 8 million people per year, and that's with over half a century of regulation and cessation problems taxation. It's also a disgusting habit that de
by mFixman 5y ago
Tobacco kills 8 million people per year, and that's with over half a century of regulation and cessation problems taxation. It's also a disgusting habit that destroys any area smokers step in.
HN is at its worse when fuming over Facebook, and comparing the tragedy caused by smoking companies with social media is a good example of how uninformed the site can get.
- satellite2 5y agoWith only 10 years of existence and already to its palmares a genocide in Myanmar and making the worst pandemic since the plague much worse, I think the comparison is not so far fetched.
- mFixman 5y agoSo the Burmese government and military junta had nothing to do with the genocide. The local media, endemic discrimination, local warlords, international support, nor the people actually guiding and doing the genocide had any responsability. Was social media the cause for the 1994 genocide in Rwanda too?
- satellite2 5y agoAs with cigarette seller, it was never in their best interest that their product cause cancer. But it does. In top of that they had evidence of it earlier than the public and chose to hide it. Facebook had many internal whisteblowers that the platform was used to shape the public opinion and facilitate the genocide and choose to do nothing.
- shadilay 5y ago"Cut the tall trees" Mass media sure helped.