I think we have the social pressure for the advertising restrictions, the TikTok ban being a pretty interesting case on it’s own, I’m just frustrated at the half-measure because as with smoking, the warning to stop will be as effective as asking a 17 year old if they’re 18 before going to a porn site. What’ll keep them off social media is not knowing it’s there to begin with.
I know it’s an anecdote but I work in retail and there is no shortage of people buying cigarettes. We have more types, flavors, and selections of ways to smoke yourself into the ground not a one who cares about the warning. I just personally think the advertising and making it look good was what actually pushed them onto new users. People know it’ll kill you, what they need to forget is the lie that it’s cool, yummy, or fun.
This isn’t aimed to stop everyone from using it, but to lower the number. There is no claim that warning labels have halted all sales of cigarettes, just that a correlation between the labels and fewer cigarettes exists. There may even be evidence that backs up causation, but I’m not familiar with the topic so can’t speak to it.
Cool. It’s just a window people will close and not care about. Try holding these companies accountable, fine them because we all know they don’t care and it should be easy to collect massive amounts in fines…supply better education to people.
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