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by keybored 49 days ago
> If some new slow method of societally expensive suicide hit the market, it would get banned quick smart. Cigarettes have only stuck around so long because of legacy and well funded lobbyists and PR / marketing types that have been happy to lie at the cost of millions of lives.

> Nice, let's defend that.

Many discussions about freedom are just marketing and corporate interests in a trench coat.

I guess this is my favorite bug bear now.

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Privatise the profits and socialise the costs. It's the American way!

Let's hope it recedes back to the US sooner rather than later. Let this be the first domino.