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Im curious how the industry allowed this. Seems like a tremendous amount of lobbying money would oppose it. There must be real story there, somewhere.
by awakeasleep 6mo ago
Im curious how the industry allowed this. Seems like a tremendous amount of lobbying money would oppose it. There must be real story there, somewhere.
- amriksohata 6mo agothis
- luizfzs 6mo agoThe real story may be that even despite heavy lobbying, they are trying to do something that has the potential to benefit the population, with the added benefit of reducing some of the load on health care system caused by this. As we know, smoking can cause lots of problems, including for babies if the mother smokes during pregnancy.
- walthamstow 6mo agoThe cigarette lobbyists are not what they used to be. A pack is £15+ of mostly tax, beige green colour, and has gruesome health warning images. They "let" all that happen. I assume all the ones who were young enough to have worked tobacco at its peak are now working for Meta, OpenAI or Flutter.
- afavour 6mo agoAre you in America? I only ask because this mindset, that lobbyists are capable of squashing any law they dislike, is not internationally universal. Not to say lobbyists don’t have an effect in the UK, they do. But the US has a particularly egregious setup.
- Cytobit 6mo agoThere is no country in the world where the ultra wealthy don't weild influence over the government.
- xyzal 6mo agoOnly in America, where markets magically solve all issues.
- cucumber3732842 6mo agoThey probable have better margins on vapes so they don't care.