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WHO calls for cigarette-style cancer warnings on alcohol packaging (www.theguardian.com)
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[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

California tried that with their prop 65 warnings on everything and it just made people ignore all the label warnings instead.

So no, we should only target the worst offenders.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Like cigarettes. Targeting alcohol too is an example of making the labels useless.