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Comment by mabbo

The only measure that has ever been shown to work to reduce smoking is to make smoking less affordable. Tax cigarettes and people smoke less. Tax them highly and kids sure can't afford them.

It's more politically easy to put money into paying celebrities to beg kids not to smoke, but it's not actually effective. It's just theater so politicians can say they tried.

Here, Greece is seeing the affordability fall just because the affordability of everything is falling for them. The result is the same.

parent mabbo 8 years ago

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