• rowinxavier@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    Is that meant as a sort of joking, the smoking causes the cancer thing? I mean, yes, we all know smoking causes cancer, that isn’t being debated. It is more about the effect of taxation on rates of smoking and this type of strategy seems to have the effect of driving black market tobacco, not reducing smoking.

    • frongt@lemmy.zip
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      3 days ago

      Then I don’t see how regulating the quality of the product is related.