[mkingston]

Listening to a podcast[1] a while ago and the interviewee talked about the pervasiveness of the tobacco industry in our culture. At the risk of misrepresenting him: I think he would probably argue that the tobacco industry has manufactured peoples choice to use cigarettes, and should be reined in. One anecdote that stuck with me was something along the lines of "in the 50s everyone seemed to agree that if smoking caused cancer, it would be banned, and yet here we are now".

[1] https://lexfridman.com/robert-proctor/