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[–] [email protected] -4 points 6 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (19 children)

What I've learned over the past five years is that you have to be very careful with this kind of mandate, or it will make people despise and doubt your whole organization. I actually think that this kind of warning label will increase the amount of cancer people get, because they'll start smoking cigarettes again, which are much worse.

Edit: To clarify, the reason people would start smoking cigarettes is not because it's an alternative to alcohol; it's because they would lose faith in health and safety warnings altogether. It's stupid, but people are stupid.

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[–] mindbleach -2 points 6 days ago (2 children)

If you mean more traumatic images in people's faces, fuck off.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Why are you against this? I thought it was shown the advertising is reasonably affective?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 days ago

If tobacco and alcohol are so toxic and dangerous why are they legal? If banning and restricting substances was so effective why is there such a large percentage of youth hooked and nearly incapable of anything than petty crimes?

I'll tell you why, because the system to balance itself and justify all the fascism and violence it holds a monopoly on it needs to criminalize a portion of the population to justify general repression. This is how you can maintain the absolute extreme in inequality, violence and legitimizing violence for the benefit of the majority.

I grew up in a society nobody tried to prevent kids from drinking, and I had not seen a kid drunk. Then in the US I was shocked that the first party I attended half the people were tripping falling down and passing out, and that was called fun!

There is a deeper reason of repression, and it is not to protect the public's health. If they gave a shit about health they would have made health care free and accessible to all as a public service it should have been, together with education, shelter, and nutrition.

[–] mindbleach 1 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Because it's traumatic imagery being shoved in people's faces. I don't give a shit whether it works.

I already don't smoke and never will - but I have to be exposed to that shit, just looking at the wrong part of a shelf. You could probably put pictures of exploded rat carcasses and starving children on there, apropos of nothing, and yeah no kidding it'll impact sales!

No practical goal justifies putting this Rotten.com gore and shock content on commodity consumer goods. You wanna reduce sales? Tax it more. Don't commit psychological warfare against anyone who glances upward at a gas station.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 5 days ago (3 children)

The reason you are calling it shit is because you were brainwashed that it is. Up until the 80s you could hardly walk into an office public or private and there weren't public ashtrays around. Have cancer, lung, and heart disease decreased? They have INCREASED!!

Have work accidents lethal and disabling injuries decreased? No, they have increased because of unions being faught against like enemies of the state (which they are to any capitalist state).

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[–] can 56 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (7 children)

Yes please. Sick of the double standard. Can't buy flavoured nicotine anymore but can still buy sickeningly flavoured liquor.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

It's called flavored moonshine, and it's art

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[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 week ago

I have no problem with that. We should be aware of the risks involved with our vices.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Labels need to be on all food, too, in the US of A. All of our food is cancerous.

[–] [email protected] -5 points 6 days ago

Please correct this, not all of your food, all of the food sold by industrial outfits, even as bio-organic industrial products. If there is one place in the planet you can live without this it is the US, plenty of land, few people, plenty of resources to afford healthy nutrition. Compare it with hell holes like the Netherlands that have higher population density than Queens NY and there is not a square inch left to grow anything to eat, let alone in an artificial dried up swamp toxins have no means of draining off.

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