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xg15yesterday at 8:50 PM1 replyview on HN

I feel like the same article could have written 30 years ago about smoking.

"Look, personally I'm all for smoking bans, so don't attack me, I just want to point out those studies that show that statistically, people in no-smoking areas have almost the same amount of respiratory symptoms as people in the regular areas. Maybe the real issue is our outdated idea of 'clean air'..."


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EA-3167yesterday at 8:52 PM

If the respiratory symptom you’re talking about is lung cancer then the rate of that has dropped by hundreds of thousands.

Not smoking works, but maybe people need more freedom to hurt themselves. I’d support that if society didn’t have to pay their bills later on.

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