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Re:Social media is a cause, not a correlate, of mental illne... by thfuran on Wednesday February 22, 2023 @04:04PM (#34902707)
>This is a rephrasing of the argument against smoking, where the argument that was smoking harms nobody else, and the counter was that smokers created a healthcare burden.

Smoking also has much more direct second hand effects from releasing smoke into the area of the smoker. Poor diet lack such effects.

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Re:Social media is a cause, not a correlate, of mental illne... by ljm on Wednesday February 22, 2023 @04:18PM (#34902912)
Which most people would agree - smoking in public is not a personal activity; but this debate raged on throughout the 90s and early 00s. The secondary effect is on the healthcare system some time after the fact, which is the same for sugar, alcohol, smoking...where it is a new generation that is funding the care.

I don't mean to distract from the main point, but sugar is not an innocent example, especially when lobbying happened to use sugar in favour of fat.

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