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Understanding Sweden’s Smoke-Free Revolution: A Model for Global Health (www.eureporter.co)

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The success story suggests that a smoke-free society can be attained more swiftly through a comprehensive, non-prohibitionist approach. This involves embracing both traditional measures and innovative solutions, catering to individual preferences, ensuring affordability, and providing easy access to safer nicotine alternatives.

Seems obvious when you put it like that. Banning can create a sort of Streisand effect, and steadily increasing tax doesn't do much at all. Hope the safer alternatives don't incentivise excessive usage.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

As long as smoking is still banned in doors and on planes etc.

I couldn't care less if other people want to kill themselves with deathsticks, as long as I don't have to deal with their filthy ass nasty habit, that's all I care about.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

undefined> "as long as I don’t have to deal with their filthy ass nasty habit"

Funny, that's how I feel about people as well. Not smoking, though

If the whole covid thing taught me anything, it's how disgusting most people are in general. And how little 'consideration for others' goes into through their minds in everyday situations.