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Originally Posted by CliffFletcher
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.
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when smokes cost 2 bucks a pack I smoked three packs a day, when they went to 2.50 I quit, when they went to 10 bucks a pack so did everyone else pretty much.
Taxes have killed smoking in Canada, which is good