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It worked just fine against smoking.

• Kye 4y ago
  Not really. Making it impractical worked against smoking. Cars stopped coming with lighters and ash trays. Where smoking is still allowed, it's in a separate section or a bench out back. Triggers for the habit are increasingly absent from media and advertising. The equivalent here would be banning the over-engineered foods that cause the problem. The common thing is the breaking of a habit. The harder it is to reenforce, the less it's done.
  • MichaelCollins 4y ago
    I think kids coming home from school after learning about smoking and shaming their parents for it had a lot to do with the demise of smoking. It made adults ashamed to smoke in their own homes, where anti-smoking laws and norms otherwise had no effect. When parents knew that their kids knew they were being harmed by the habit, that gave a lot of people a strong incentive to quit. Or at least to only smoke outside.
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• DanBC 4y ago
  No, it didn't. The only things that worked were increasing the price and providing nicotine replacement treatment.