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  • I have a life to attend to.

    In theory, similar bans should apply to all harmful substances e.g. fizzy drinks, alcohol, fast food etc. This is obviously an extreme take and difficult, if not impossible, to do in practice.

    I also drink, have consumed illegal substances and consume fast-food on a rare basis.

    My reasoning is that I do not want extensive costs being lumped into the general public to pay for the needed health care, due to the availability of harmful, non-beneficial products in our society. I do not believe extra tax on these products is appropriate or sufficient as these products tend to be used by those with lower education or lower income groups - and it is not fair to further burden these groups in life.




  • I mean mothers don’t decide for adults either, hopefully. But I think you missed my point.

    We know that: Tobacco and alcohol companies tried (and still do try) very hard to get kids to smoke & drink, because a child who smokes/drinks will likely become a significant customer for life.

    Regulators also know this, so they began aiming at removing the marketing which was clearly influential to age groups not legally allowed to consume alcohol/cigarettes. I know for example Australia banned alcohol ads during kids tv shows, tobacco advertising has been banned since the 90’s.

    Then along came vaping, which was neither a tobacco or alcohol product and could circumvent the regulations in place.

    There is a significant young population size who will take up smoking/vaping for its social appeal - whatever that is. Let’s call them pot #1.

    There is also a significant young population who will try smoking/vaping, realise it tastes like ass or is too much effort and decide to not continue with it. Let’s call them pot #2.

    Pot #1, which it sounds like would include you for cigarettes, cannot be influenced and these regulations trying to reduce smoking/vaping would annoy them.

    Pot #2 however can be influenced as long as those factors are address, e.g. ban the selling of the child friendly flavours, reducing exposure and limiting supply.

    By reducing pot #2 for harmful activities like drinking, smoking and vaping, you reduce the burden on your public health system in the long term.

    The big vape companies have been bought out by the big tobacco companies now, so they are one in the same.






  • No idea about this dude, but literally in the article you link, they reference Zenz as an independent researcher who says:

    “Although it is speculative…”

    Before providing his estimate and also provides other details which appear to support the story, but the article does not present as clear, hard “facts”. Also, the title isn’t some clickbait trash, and even directly says “could”.




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    I would add that to use these stores it is HELPFUL (not mandatory) to understand what they are presenting.

    F-Droid is a store for open source software, normally maintained (or not) by teams of passionate people or volunteers.

    Aurora store is a mask over the Google play store, which can use an anonymous account to download files from the Google play store. The Aurora store may not be ideal of you are working with paid apps, but it is worth reading up before you blindly jump in here.

    There is also the !privacy@lemmy.world or !privacy@lemmy.ml groups which can help if you want to de-google.