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Re:Your Lifestyle Has Already Been Designed (2010) by CPLX on Sunday August 01, 2021 @02:15PM (#28028561)
> No one sane would inhale burning carcinogenic leaves to damage their own health, but people do - because they're encouraged to.

This is a ridiculous take. You think indigenous communities in pre-Colombian America were using tobacco because of media influence?

It’s a pleasurable and highly addictive drug.

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Re:Your Lifestyle Has Already Been Designed (2010) by metabagel on Sunday August 01, 2021 @03:10PM (#28028965)
The difference being that indigenous communities weren’t aware that they were inhaling a carcinogen.
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