As a side note, the movie The Insider by Michael Mann with Al Pacino and Russell Crowe is the single most effective anti-smoking thing I’ve come across. It shows how evil those corporations are and what they did to a whistleblower.
All forms of tobacco are inherently addictive due to the presence of naturally occurring nicotine, which is the main driver of addiction.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown_%26_Williamson#Controver...
So sure, tobacco is still addictive, but as I said in my comment, my main issue is with the hacking/maximization of this by corporations. Especially when that hacking involves adding even more poisonous chemicals.
- No dark patterns that make difficult to unsubscribe or that add automatically products to the basket - No promotion of hate and other highly emotional and highly addictive content - Limit the amount of daily ads so increasing retention time is not a goal - Removal of loot boxes and other gambling from games
and other things like that. Medicines are dangerous and have a lot of regulations, nobody is asking to remove all medical products. That is a straw man argument.
Applying the same type of legislation to social media apps (for children, at least) seems reasonable to me.
Such legislation sounds hard to draw up.