There's this idea that markets just discover and serve peoples' wants and preferences. It has to be tempered with the fact that our perceptions and even our identities are shaped by the information we are served with from birth. In this era, culture serves capital as much as capital serves culture.

Caffeine too. People are proud of how addicted they are. I used to get headaches from it, I think a lot of people do, and there was just this wtf moment of "why do I abuse this stuff"? Great PR.

I say we ban caffine and tobacco.

The war on drugs would be over in a week.

Who would win? In all seriousness I think you'd undo the last couple decades worth of productivity gains in just a couple days..

I think gp means if caffeine and tobacco was included in the list of drugs the "war on drugs" would end because nobody would enforce it, thereby legalizing everything.

Of course this won't happen and I think that is to a certain degree a good thing.