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Originally Posted by PeteMoss
Public health plays a role in that. All the smoking regulations, ads, taxes, etc have lowered our smoking rates. (no idea what they do in Russia about that)
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Some. But government isn’t all-powerful, and culture and social norms are not entirely malleable. We like to trundle out attractive and paternalistic solutions, like ‘education’, as though people don’t know smoking, soda, big macs, and booze are bad for you. It would be a nice world if that’s all we had to do to change unhealthy behaviour.