This remind me of the recent story here, about how tobacco companies knew that radioactive polonium in their tobacco leaves was causing an insane rate of lung cancer, killing 130 out of ever 1,000 smokers over 25 years. [0]
They even had a process to remove the radioactivity, but, it made the nicotine a little less addictive so they didn't do it. Instead, they kept marketing to children with cartoon characters for another 20+ years until forced to stop.
These same companies are still marketing cigarettes to kids where they can get away with it.
At some point we need to start talking about self defense from this shitty system. And I feel like that point was the 60's.
They even had a process to remove the radioactivity, but, it made the nicotine a little less addictive so they didn't do it. Instead, they kept marketing to children with cartoon characters for another 20+ years until forced to stop.
These same companies are still marketing cigarettes to kids where they can get away with it.
At some point we need to start talking about self defense from this shitty system. And I feel like that point was the 60's.
0 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36925019