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> Social acceptability is in fact super important

Yes, It is. The issue is that this acceptability is more often the result of propaganda (in the general sense of influencing public opinion.) than scientific/logical diligent public discourse.

Yeah, I know. As you already said too, "This is just how it works."

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I mean, if we're talking about propaganda, we probably need to include decades of the tobacco industry pushing it in movies, advertisements, denial (including under oath in Congress) of the health impacts, etc.

We do. The problem is that tobacco is often singled out. It is the easy target. What about the food industry ? [1] (yes again.)

We need to attack other harmful products with a proportional acharnement to that we applied to tobacco. That was my first aim in all this (downvoted) affair.

[1] https://www.healthline.com/health/sugar/big-fat-lies-sugar-p...