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by ultrarunner 2627 days ago
> We haven't seen the nicotine equivalent of fentanyl your "risk ladder" model predicts.

Only if you're looking at that end of the risk ladder. On the other end are vaping products like Juul that (while not perfect) are far safer than smoking. And, what do you know, there is increasing pressure to ban them as well. In the interest of not going off in the weeds, I won't even approach the deficits of government nutrition policies or soda taxation attempts.