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Selling an addictive substance through media carpet bombing without informed consent is absolutely a crime. "But people want it" is not a valid argument. Ther

Selling an addictive substance through media carpet bombing without informed consent is absolutely a crime. "But people want it" is not a valid argument. There's a quote about propaganda which says that the goal is to make everyone feel that forced-fed choices are their own spontaneous decisions. There are entire industries devoted to making sure that those choices - often self-harming - are not spontaneous. At all. Get rid of those and you may have a point. While they still operate, you don't.

sershe 3y ago
Hmm, but they did get rid of those. In fact even though I grew up in society where most people smoke and used to smoke myself, after living in the US for a while, when I see someone smoking for the first time I have to catch myself as I involuntarily assume they must be some sort of a hard-living fucked-up person :) Then I'm like oh no, they are just older and from Italy, everyone smokes in Italy too! The propaganda goes the opposite way. Same for fast food and soda, to a lesser degree... they seem to be frowned upon - yet people like them anyway.