Comment on unfathomable

JoMiran@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• Kirp123@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  One of the reasons they were banned was also because it made them more attractive to children and teenagers. That’s also one of the reasons a lot of places don’t allow fancy designs on cigarette packs and it forces them to show those gruesome pictures of throat cancer and stuff.

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  • Trex202@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Exactly, that’s why vapes come in many flavours and colours

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    • TAG@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I thought that the US banned flavored vapes. If your home country has not, encourage politicians to ban vapes altogether.

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      • Epp@lemmus.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        And ban alcohol, too. And sugar.

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• Little1Lost@gehirneimer.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  the tabacco lobby there (state owned, makes basically the same amount of money the chinese military spends) banned flavored vapes so the citizen take cigarettes instead

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  • MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Is this why some manwha/hua mc smoke?

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    • Little1Lost@gehirneimer.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      about 40% of chinese people smoke so its definetly something where state & tabacco propaganda succeeded. About korea: i dont know, i only saw the documentary about the chinese mega company

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  • MisterFrog@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It’s worse than that, the tobacco regulator and the company with a monopoly on tobacco production/sales is the same organisation 💀

    Holy conflict of interest Batman

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• MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Except cigarettes are a state-run monopoly over there.

  The main reason things are going so slowly is that they can’t bring themselves to stop making so much money.

  The same institution that’s supposed to promote the facts about the health-risks of smoking is the one making stupid amounts of money making and selling it.

  If they ever stop, it’ll be because they transition to other nicotine products, are shift to exporting the product to developing countries (which they already are).

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• wdx@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  unlikely. Basically all cigarettes are produced by CNTC or one of their subsidiaries.

  CNTC is owned by the state and rakes in a lot of money for the government.

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  • zikzak025@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    There’s a profit ceiling, though. And a lot of countries are finding out that the larger cost of cigarette usage is borne by the healthcare systems that need to spend a disproportionate volume of resources to manage the various health complications caused by a lifetime of smoking.

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    • captainlezbian@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      If anything it should be easier to kill a cigarette industry owned by the government, because the ones profiting are the ones paying the long term cost

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  • sangeteria@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    The liquor stores in Canada are primarily monopolize by the provincial governments, which is for the best, but it does have its obvious negative externalities lol. I always make an effort to go to a govt store over a private corp if I can

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• teslekova@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Curve

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• Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Didnt they already ban vapes?
  Or did I mishear something.

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