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This is the answer. Don't criminalize vice, that just leads to systems of oppression. Instead, do not allow anyone to advertise vice or anything that is harmful to society.

Its working well for banning tobacco ads. Just have to ban ads for gambling, alcohol, cars, etc.

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Why would you lump cars into it?

SUVs and similar cars are worse for society than normal cars -- increased fuel use, increased injuries and deaths from collisions.

That doesn't answer my question. OP said cars - you narrowed it down to "SUVs and similar".

Then you're asking a rhetorical question to be snarky.

No, I’m not and I really don’t understand how you’d come to that conclusion. I really want to know why you’d lump in car ads along with ads for alcohol and cigarettes.

I already gave one possible answer, which is also my opinion.

It's easy enough to imagine someone else might go further with the reasoning about safety, pollution etc and decide all cars should be banned, rather than a subset.

who gets to determine what things are vices?

The same people who currently decide what things are illegal or taxed higher.

not you, for sure ;)

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