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vogelke on April 5, 2025 | parent | context | favorite | on: What if we made advertising illegal?

> millions of victims from false advertising of Big Tobacco

People have known that smoking is bad for your health for around 400 years. You can't fix stupid, not even by making advertising illegal.

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