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fr33lunch · 4789 days ago · link · · parent · post: Should We Ban Cigarettes? - Peter Singer - Project Syndicate
..."Cigarettes are designed to create and maintain addiction, the FDA should limit the amount of nicotine that they contain to a level at which they would cease to be addictive."
I do not see this as a viable solution to ending the harm caused by cigarette smoking. Nicotine is addictive at nearly any level. Smokers will just smoke more cigarettes to get the nicotine fix that they so desire. If anything, this suggestion will sell more cigarettes--not less. Take for example the picture I snapped at the duty-free shop recently: https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-Lhw-_-Y8hTU/Trrpnd1mwiI/A...