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Some are meant to be noticed: mandated calorie counts on food menus (nudge to health eating), or dire warnings on cigarette packs (nudge to quit smoking). Neith
by cobbzilla 4y ago
Some are meant to be noticed: mandated calorie counts on food menus (nudge to health eating), or dire warnings on cigarette packs (nudge to quit smoking). Neither of these have had any measurable impact on their goals; I welcome evidence to the contrary.
- BoxOfRain 4y agoAnecdotally I was still smoking when they brought in mandated gore on British tobacco pouches, very quickly people were joking like 'I got the bloke with a hole in his side, just need the curious baby with a cigarette and I've got the lot' etc. Those who were really bothered by it just got a baccy tin or if they smoked straights, a cigarette case. What led me to quit wasn't any 'nudging' by the government but simply that vaping is a lot more convenient than smoking and lacked the finger-wagging inherent in other nicotine replacement approaches, and once I was only vaping I could turn down the nicotine over the course of six months or so to spare the worst of the grimness of quitting.