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You could have said the same thing about teenage smoking. It's addictive, hard to regulate away, but teen smoking regulations had demonstrable and massive healt
by whats_a_quasar 4y ago
You could have said the same thing about teenage smoking. It's addictive, hard to regulate away, but teen smoking regulations had demonstrable and massive health impacts. Cultural change is best, but governments have an obligation to improve public health. Particularly for minors, the vast majority of whom can't make informed decisions about addictive technology.
- theK 4y agoI think youth smoking is a good example. - It wasn't enough to stop sale to minors (they still got them). - It wasn't enough to run information campaigns in schools and legislate packaging warnings (stuff like this gets blatantly ignored) What really worked in the US (but even that with a lag of 5-7 Years) was: 1. blanket banning smoking on the media in the 90s 2. progressively blanket banning smoking in the public since the 90s Edit: formating