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Originally Posted by CliffFletcher
You’re missing the part when the country was flooded with black market cigarettes smuggled through Mohawk territory and the government had to roll back taxes.
Changing social norms and behaviours killed smoking. Taxes just gave the shift a boost.
If government just has to pull levers to prod citizens away from unhealthy behaviour, why do we have growing rates of obesity and a plague of overdoses?
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we dont have a plague of overdoses, we have, proportionate to the rest of the population, a tiny number of them, probably far less than the number of drinking and driving deaths we had in the 60's and 70's, they just have increased from the even tinier number we had 5 or 6 years ago.
As to obesity, vast portions of sugar and starch based junk food is incredibly cheap