If anything the oil companies are the most evil. They knew climate change was going to happen 50+ years ago.
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NauticalNoodle@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
The evil tobacco company is an outdated narrative, they were already regulated to hell 22 years ago when I started smoking and since then I’ve only ever seen the regulations increase now with the new apparent goal of outlawing nicotine, because I can only speculate that people think this time we’re going to get prohibition right.
btw I quit smoking 7 years ago, and nicotine altogether 5 years ago.
PalmTreeIsBestTree@lemmy.world 1 day ago
easily3667@lemmus.org 1 day ago
I hate to alarm you but the entire planet knew climate change was going to happen 50 years ago because that was the 70s when this became well known.
Oil companies were noticing several decades before.
Siegfried@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Well, done quitting. Respect
O_R_I_O_N@lemm.ee 1 day ago
It’s illegal to grow your own tobacco in more states now than it is to grow you own cannabis
easily3667@lemmus.org 1 day ago
It’s called “history”, not “outdated”. Op is comparing a historical behavior with a current behavior.
NauticalNoodle@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
The current tobacco companies are no longer any more evil than any other business is my point. It’s a bad comparison for a modern day Social Media company, especially since so little of the population today was around for when Tobacco companies were at there worst.
easily3667@lemmus.org 12 hours ago
Op didn’t say social media companies today are like tobacco companies today. They said social media companies today are like tobacco companies at their worst.
…wikipedia.org/…/United_States_v._Philip_Morris
This was 1999. Just because you’re under 25 doesn’t mean most of the world population is under 25.
NauticalNoodle@lemmy.ml 3 hours ago
yeah they did.