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Re:Inside the Philip Morris campaign to 'normalize' a tobacc... by catalogia on Friday February 21, 2020 @02:16PM (#22385863)
> "Do we also allow people to seek [...] ineffective medications,"

Not that I think we should, but we do. Grocery stores like Whole Foods have entire aisles dedicated to snake-oil.

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Re:Inside the Philip Morris campaign to 'normalize' a tobacc... by azinman2 on Friday February 21, 2020 @02:24PM (#22385946)
FWIW those aren’t “medications,” they’re “supplements.” Regardless of the lack of regulating supplements being good or bad, it wasn’t what I meant in this case.
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Re:Inside the Philip Morris campaign to 'normalize' a tobacc... by catalogia on Friday February 21, 2020 @02:41PM (#22386075)
It seems to me that's just wordplay used to avoid regulation. These products are marketed in a way that suggests they might be used in lieu of regulated medicines.
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