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Reasoning backwards, if menthol cigarettes were illegal, would anyone support making them legal? I’m libertarian-ish esp with respect to drugs but I think this makes sense. At some point this harm reduction strategies will go too far but it hasn’t reached that point for me yet.

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people don't tend to think harm reduction strategies have gone too far until the government starts targeting their vices.

i don't smoke anymore, but it still makes me very uncomfortable to see the government take another step forward in regulating how people treat their own bodies. the government rarely takes a step back.

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