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Re:CVS Health Quits U.S. Chamber Over Stance on Smoking by baddox on Wednesday July 08, 2015 @02:25AM (#9850098)
> addiction and capitalism are a terrible combination.

Have we ever seen that play out for hard drugs, when capitalism is also allowed to work on treatment and rehab?

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Re:CVS Health Quits U.S. Chamber Over Stance on Smoking by coldpie on Wednesday July 08, 2015 @09:22AM (#9851319)
Alcohol would be the obvious example of a relatively unregulated, addictive hard drug with treatment centers.
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Re:CVS Health Quits U.S. Chamber Over Stance on Smoking by wpietri on Thursday July 09, 2015 @02:58PM (#9859985)
Might as well form a company that does both. Then you can make money from causing the problem and from solving it. It'd be the broken window fallacy on an industrial scale.
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