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A comment on Request For Research: Basic Income. Parent comment

Re:Request For Research: Basic Income by tomcam on Thursday January 28, 2016 @01:21PM (#10990053) 

  You can't really economically 
  disincentivize addicts from 
  seeking a fix; that's basically 
  definitional.
Not sure I agree. Seems like we cut down smoking drastically in the USA through heavy taxation? Not an expert in that area, however.
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Re:Request For Research: Basic Income by goldbrick on Thursday January 28, 2016 @04:31PM (#10991526)
Not really. Smoking went down as it became less socially acceptable to do so. Case in point: cigarettes are $6/pack in California, but very few people smoke because those who do are seen as unhealthy louts. Meanwhile in New York cigarettes are $13 yet it's much more prevalent.
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