all of those things only harm the human experience and end up making people live less!! no drug!! why do people like these things if they only harm your body… i don’t understand… gluten is bad for your heart too

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    11 months ago

    am i in western civilization?? mexico. some people would say im not, but i dont care, the west is a good place but all countries share problems and vices are bad

    • Uriel238 [all pronouns]@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      11 months ago

      You’re definitely influenced by the market of western civ. Big tobacco, for instance, lobbies the government of Mexico to let them sell cigarettes without restriction (e.g. to kids, without warning labels, without PSAs warning people that smoking is dangerous).

      I should clarify when I say it happens in western civilization, I’m not saying it doesn’t happen outside of western civilization. China, for instance has its own set of vices sold to the people fully aware of their ill health effects. I’m less familiar with them, and can’t give an informed opinion about it.

      But as Russia’s history with Vodka shows us, personal responsibility only carries us so far, and a state may gladly sacrifice the integrity of its households to squeeze more production from the workforce.

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        11 months ago

        ?? that is false because here in mexico, all cigarrete brands have smoking labels and you cant smoke in public, only in special areas, and you need an id to buy them. but its sad that here some people dont take that seriously, or in the entire world, oh no!!

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          11 months ago

          They said the tobacco companies lobby to loosen restrictions, not that their efforts have been successful.