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by mkl 941 days ago
Not just wanting people to smoke, but wanting to get young people addicted. It's awful.
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wanting to get young people addicted so that they can be taxed.

it’s awful without the taxation, but that detail extends a message they didn’t have enough sense to hold back or at least sanitize - citizens live and die for the state, it does not exist for them, and the youth aren’t special in that regard - they were just an overlooked resource that wasn’t fully squeezed yet. and why wait until adulthood?