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[–] TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Philip Morris International thanks you for your brave defense of products that only exist to create lifelong addictions, make unfathomably massive corporations unfathomable amounts of money, and induce severe chronic health conditions.

Sorry it apparently didn't work out for you; hopefully fewer kids in the UK born after 2008 will have the same mistake imposed upon them.

[–] RichardNixos@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

We could ban advertising and attractive packaging. We could provide non-carcinogenic alternatives like nicotine gum or snus made with synthetic nicotine so no profits go to Philip Morris. We could heavily fine people who smoke around children and other non-smokers. We have all of these regulatory scalpels at our disposable but for some reason we're always reaching for the nuclear option of prohibition. When will we learn?

[–] UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 week ago

When will we learn?

They dont want to learn. They want you to learn who is really in control of human civilization.

[–] UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml -2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Hope you get help for your authoritarian addiction stranger