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You're asking for global human behavior changes. Does that seem realistic?

> You're asking for global human behavior changes. Does that seem realistic?

https://www.lung.org/research/trends-in-lung-disease/tobacco....

    Long term, smoking rates have fallen 73% among adults, from 42.6% in 1965 to 11.6% in 2022.
    Over the last five years, smoking rates have fallen 17% among adults, from 14.0% in 2017.

You forget that doctors recommend smoking as safe in tabacco advertising back in 40's.

https://tobacco.stanford.edu/cigarettes/doctors-smoking/more...

Could you elaborate on why it's relevant (or missing) ? I can think of different but opposite reasons and I can't tell if your comment is a rebuttal or in support.

You replied on global human behavior change. I just added a piece of puzzle that shows, how implying global human behavior changes are driven by lobby.

Ah, I see. Yes, there needs to be a strong influence (lobbies, advertising, governments, religion, cultural leaders, etc.).

And lies.

With sufficient education, awareness, and incentives. I don't see why not.

There's already a massive shift in the hospitality industry with paper straws and bio-decompositable cutlery, saving the world from a tremendous amount of plastic.

I would think that education and awareness could work for another generation, though them being bombarded with a popular social media image of life it may be hard. Incentives work to some extent (the biggest being a cost of doing the good thing being lower enough than doing the bad thing), but if you will make costs of doing bad things artificially bigger (I know, it is about things the society currently thinks as free) you risk populists getting to power.

Sure, we effected major changes by making it illegal to build homes next to jobs so re-legalising that should make a big difference.

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