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Can a law make cigarettes less addictive? What about alcoholic beverages? Soda? Sugar? Sweet stuff in general? Gambling? Drugs? Possibly so, to a certain exten
by dotcoma 2y ago
Can a law make cigarettes less addictive? What about alcoholic beverages? Soda? Sugar? Sweet stuff in general? Gambling? Drugs?
Possibly so, to a certain extent, but in the end it's our personal responsibility to stay as much away as possible from the above things.
- akie 2y agoPersonal responsibility is overrated. In almost all of the examples you mention, direct government intervention can and does lead to positive health outcomes for individuals and for the whole of society. It just seems like that's almost a taboo thing to say in the US.
- dotcoma 2y agoI'm not in the US and I am in favour of laws making smoking, drinking, driving, drinking soda and sweet stuff etc harder, less pleasurable and taxed. But I don't think laws, while necessary, can really solve the problem. If well thought out, they can limit the damange that is done, but not solve the problem.
- sloowm 2y agoThere are many laws against advertising cigarettes for instance. There could be similar laws against unhealthy foods and alcohol. Lets try all these things before we say laws are not effective against these things and evaluate after. In smoking it has had a huge impact.
- dotcoma 2y agoI'm all for it.
- blitzar 2y agoThe law can not make heroin less addictive. You educate people and tell them it is addictive, you can make it illegal and hard for people to get, you can put people in jail for getting hooked on it. It is still addictive. Nothing short of making heroin not heroin makes it less addictive, but then it is no longer heroin and heroin itself is still just as addictive.
- dotcoma 2y agoI'm afraid the same is true of sugar, cigarettes, alcohol, fast food etc.