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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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Vast majority of people didn't buy black market cigarettes so it worked. Not being able to smoke indoors anywhere obviously had a difference. Changing social norms happened because smokers were made to go stand out in the snow and pay a lot of money for cigarettes, not because they just went out of style.
What levers have they pulled for obesity? Overdoses is a long term problem that will need many changes for a fix - being soft on drugs is still portrayed as a weakness in elections. Governments have effed up on drugs forever, so not a surprise this isn't fixed.