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Well, we all already know alcohol does more harm than broccoli. If that isn't enough to stop someone drinking it, why would cancer warning labels?
by d12bb 4y ago
Well, we all already know alcohol does more harm than broccoli. If that isn't enough to stop someone drinking it, why would cancer warning labels?
- SonicScrub 4y agoWarning labels were part of an effective strategy to curb smoking. This is from the same playbook. Warning labels on alcohol have been shown to reduce consumption in localized testing, as stated in the article you are commenting on. While most people have some idea that alcohol is had for them, the link between cancer and alcohol is not widely known. This is also reflected upon in the article.
- prvc 4y agoThe "experts" (by the media's reckoning) haven't yet advocated doing this for marijuana products, which bear no cancer warnings, so I think a great deal of cynicism is warranted here.
- pitaj 4y agoThat's because there's not conclusive evidence that smoking only marijuana causes cancer - especially to the same degree as tobacco. While it may seem like "smoke is smoke", that doesn't appear to hold for marijuana - and it's not clear why.
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- sublinear 4y agoDefinitely not true. Inhaling combustion byproducts is what causes cancer. Marijuana smokers typically just don't inhale as much smoke as tobacco smokers. Nobody chain smokes joints all day unless they're Snoop Dogg or something.
- narag 4y agoI quit tobacco years ago and the last studies I read pointed to smoke and tar, not nicotine, as the specific cause of cancer. But later when vaporizers got popular they changed the tune to "tobacco is bad, no matter how you consume it". Honestly, I don't know which is true. Nobody chain smokes joints all day unless they're Snoop Dogg or something. There are many somethings out there. But vapes are indeed more convenient.
- sublinear 4y agoAt the risk of diminishing my small position in this thread I can only anecdotally state my perspective which is... indeed whatever you're vaping is better than smoking it. To address your comment about nicotine, vaping nicotine salts (what is the standard now; juul, vuse, etc.) is a huge upgrade from cigarettes. My lungs have literally healed. My doctor (who disapproves but admits the difference) and I would love to see a reply refuting this.
- pessimizer 4y agoYour comment doesn't count as conclusive evidence.
- collyw 4y agoOh, they do.
- SonicScrub 4y agoI fail to see how a failure to properly label a different product with the appropriate health warnings is a an argument to also fail with a different one. If a risk exists, proper labelling is warranted regardless of substance. I'd also like to point out that the Canadian Cancer Society (one of the groups highly involved with advocated for labelling) has also issued statements about inhalation (of any substance). So they quite literally have done the thing that you accuse them of having not done.
- pessimizer 4y ago> Warning labels were part of an effective strategy to curb smoking. Raising the prices of cigarettes beyond the means of poor people and passing restrictive laws about smoking in public and private were the only effective strategies against smoking. The warning labels were an intermediate justification, and in the case of Swedish snus, actual misinformation.
- marban 4y agoGoogle broccoli thiocyanate, and enjoy a bottle of red from time to time.