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Originally Posted by cdcox
In 1965 52% of males and 34% of females in the US smoked. Warning labels were implemented in 1966. In 2007, 24% of males and 18% of females in the US smoked. I think the effort to inform the public about the dangers of smoking (while allowing individuals to make their own personal decisions), of which warning labels was only one arm of the campaign, is clearly one of the things government got right.
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And yet STILL people sued the tobacco companies for wrongful death.
Yeah, a lot of good those stickers did.