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But you could also simply not partake right?

If I’m very sensitive to food borne illness concerns, maybe I make the choice to go to a grocery store with vacuum sealed product, versus buying at a farmers market?

Similarly, folks who want “safe” booze can buy the bottled stuff from the big boys, not the corner store swill.

Of course, the weakness in this position is that the corner store swill is often substantially cheaper, and thus disproportionately affects low income communities.

No good answers. I’m not a smoker. So I have no dog in this fight. But I can’t help but read this article with a degree of schaddenfreude and frustration. The gov’t is so poor at executing sometimes, it’s astounding.