> Everything's a poison depending on the dose. The same could be said for alcohol or junk food.
I mean, yea? The alcohol industry in the US and worldwide is kinda shameless in how much they reinforce overindulgence with their advertisements.
Junk food should absolutely have a tax, not a sin tax because it's bad - but a tax that brings in the currently externalized health costs that will come from eating it regularly.
Everything's a poison depending on the dose. The same could be said for alcohol or junk food.
> just look at the ground next time you're walking outside to see all the cigarette butts
Or soda bottles or fast food wrappers or oil dripping from cars or...
> and then they lobby to push for these retardants to be pushed onto the furnishing industry
This is a result of TB117 being signed by CA gov Jerry Brown in 1975 [1], more than 10 years after the surgeon general's report about cigarettes and lung cancer. If any lobbyists are to blame I would tend to look at the chemical companies.
What's more, California required the retardant, so furniture companies decided instead of making california-specific furniture, they'd put the retardant into all furniture. There's at least some blame on them as well.
> This is a tax everyone is paying for some smokers to get their fix.
I'd argue it's a tax everyone pays because California's government is/was run amok.
[1] https://www.kqed.org/science/11318/its-official-toxic-flame-...