a thing i'm curious about is why anti-smoking type ads don't go more aggressively with the social shaming
if I were tasked with this I think I'd do something more brazen like "JUUL SMOKERS ARE INSECURE"
it doesn't have to be true, it just needs to seep into common consciousness
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i'm not actually suggesting aggressive policing, see replies
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different types of policing have different effects depending on the context and execution
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it depends on how you do it. as a teenage smoker myself with lots of smoker friends, I have to disagree
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+ Really not very much on board with the ethics of institutionalizing shaming people for doing something that is harmful to themselves.
I think there are better ways to handle this stuff.
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In Norway smoking rates are declining pretty fast.
I think that's a combination of things. One is legislating in favor of non-smokers (banning indoors smoking etc.), which is essential. I lived in Prague long enough to appreciate how much life sucks for non-smokers otherwise.
Another is that smoking is perfectly legal, but subjected to heavy tariffs.
A pack of cigarettes is really, really expensive, on the order of a full day's worth of (cheap) food for one person.
Smokers subsidize their own health care costs, effectively.
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I heard Singapore, for example, fines people for throwing buds on the ground?
I don't know if that is the case or just my gramps waffling as usual, but I think it's good policy if true. Don't pollute common areas. That's important.
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