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Re:Juul, Philip Morris Sued Under Racketeer Act for Targetin... by trevyn on Tuesday August 20, 2019 @02:46AM (#20744383)
“It’s for profit” is a knee-jerk, relatively thought-free answer.

There is a deeper answer, and the door to it is seeing that different people can have very different underlying beliefs and motivations, which are not necessarily morally better or worse, just different.

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Re:Juul, Philip Morris Sued Under Racketeer Act for Targetin... by blub on Tuesday August 20, 2019 @03:08AM (#20744480)
What motivations could those be, making as many people as possible addicted and sick?

The former are usually called drug dealers and the latter psychopaths.

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Re:Juul, Philip Morris Sued Under Racketeer Act for Targetin... by seandhi on Tuesday August 20, 2019 @07:43AM (#20745765)
Or maybe they genuinely believe that their products are safer than cigarettes and believe that they are helping people by giving them an alternative.
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Re:Juul, Philip Morris Sued Under Racketeer Act for Targetin... by blub on Tuesday August 20, 2019 @09:57AM (#20747085)
Given that cigarettes literally cause cancer, it's very hard to create a product that is not safer than that.
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