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[-] Tankiedesantski@hexbear.net 19 points 1 year ago

Taxation is a tool but it also creates inequality where rich people are able to smoke and poor people can't. That situation risks making tobacco a signifier of wealth - an aspirational good like an expensive handbag.

[-] AOCapitulator@hexbear.net 9 points 1 year ago

good, let them smoke and DIE

[-] orcrist@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

If rich kids are able to get lung cancer and poor kids are priced out of it, I don't feel bad for the poor kids.

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