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You make my argument. Kids also get taught about smoking in school. It's hammered into them everywhere, all the time. There are massive social prohibitions on
by popcorncowboy 3y ago
You make my argument.
Kids also get taught about smoking in school. It's hammered into them everywhere, all the time. There are massive social prohibitions on smoking. And yet.
The whole point is that people massively discount harms that are not immediately and visibly consequential.
- johnnyanmac 3y agoyet... smoking rates have been trending dowards for 20 years? https://www.lung.org/research/trends-in-lung-disease/tobacco-trends-brief/overall-tobacco-trends https://www.lung.org/research/trends-in-lung-disease/tobacco... I'm not expecting everyone to be perfectly healthy, ethically minded citizen.I certainly am not. Just an perceived consensus (well, "just". Still asking for the moon apparently). I'd be over the moon if we had 37% rates of people who cared about privacy (the peak of teen smoking rates since they started collecting/publicizing that part of data in 1991). let alone 63%.