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So, no one likes lockdowns. No one thinks that they are without secondary harms. And most importantly, NO ONE is arguing for Wuhan-style full-scale lockdowns. No one is. But a straw man argument is being set up by those who want to mislead the American and British publics. 1/

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AIER cares about publuc health so much it hss often published articles (usually by econmists) decrying regulation of tobacco,age limits, etc ... just like many other related think tanks.

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If You Try to Quit the Habit, We’ll Tax You

Here's a quick sample, quite akin to pieces I've seen from similar think tanks. Ideology, not science: aier.org/article/indian aier.org/article/the-va aier.org/article/if-you aier.org/article/vaping

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Unfortunately, these foolish mistakes will be made on the back of smokers who may get to switch away from tobacco.

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Association of Noncigarette Tobacco Product Use With Future Cigarette Smoking Among Youth in the...

Scince: tobacco.ucsf.edu/two-big-nation and pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29297010/ Nicotine addiction only works for most during adolescent brain development (~10-24, peak ~15-19). Tobacco co's have known this no later than early 1980s. They hate regulations, esp Tobacco21 (21 is not arbitrary).

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Any use of e-cigarettes, hookah, noncigarette combustible tobacco, or smokeless tobacco was independently associated with cigarette smoking 1 year later. Use of more than 1 product increased the odds...

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Dr. Angela Rasmussen

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I guess you missed the part where Dr. Gonsalves said nobody is arguing for full indefinite lockdowns.

4:58 PM · Oct 14, 2020

LOL. Dear Kiril. My colleagues and I have been arguing for addressing these other impacts of the pandemic since March. Glad you've now joined the crusade. No one wants draconian lockdowns. We want smart public health. Not insane notions of "herd immunity." I am so done with this.

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