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Decades of research have illustrated the consequences of tobacco consumption.

Science is descriptive, not prescriptive.

The actions individuals and societies take based on that information are based on their own subjective values.

If adults want to make unhealthy choices and poison themselves then let them do it. And let farmers use their land to grow whatever they want. Does that make me a tobacco sympathizer?

Make Opium Great Again

Seriously though both tobacco and a lot of other “whatever they want” crops have mountains of externalized costs and societal consequences

> And let farmers use their land to grow whatever they want.

Finally we'd be able to get blackcurrant in this country again. Shame about the pine blister rust and consequent devastation to forests and logging, but that's the price of freedom I guess.

Parts of the tech scene have a libertarian bent.