• RichardNixos@lemmy.ml
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    3 hours ago

    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?