[derangedHorse]

> 1. The restaurant isn't lacing your food with cocaine

Cocaine creates a much larger chemical change in the brain and can kill you in high doses so it’s not really comparable.

> 2. The author is incentivizing reading, which is generally a good thing

Says who? Why is reading inherently a good thing?

And all of those things are regulated because they have what most consider to be objectively bad effects on the body (with metrics based on cellular harm).