Re:Kellogg’s is going to war over Mexico’s nutrition label r...
by refurb on Friday August 25, 2023 @08:10AM
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At least in the US, smoking rates were almost cut in half before any of that stuff even happened (48% to 30%).
https://news.gallup.com/poll/237908/smoking-rate-hits-new-lo...
Hell, when I was in high school, you could still smoke at 16.
I'd argue the health risks have become way more know, which drove most of the reduction.
Re:Kellogg’s is going to war over Mexico’s nutrition label r...
by jacknews on Saturday August 26, 2023 @02:34AM
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I think those things mainly followed, getting a mandate from, the changing fashions; the health-conscious, status and performance oriented 80s, for example, rather than creating it, but I'm sure there's influence both ways.
Where do you think this change is coming from? When I was a kid, there was a huge billboard right next to my school with a man wearing aviator glasses, an airplane in the background, smoking Memphis cigarettes. That was the coolest guy I've ever seen.
Compare that to 20 years later, there's a photo of a depressed guy on the package and a message "smoking causes infertility".
When I first started at uni, students still smoked in the auditorium. That was cool.
By the time I finished, people who smoked had to go outside and stand in smoking zones like animals. The opposite of cool.
There's a reason why the public perception changed. I don't think the public perception would have changed as drastically without government intervention.