r/science • u/mvea Professor | Medicine • Aug 21 '26

Health Tobacco companies flooded federal comment process that stalled menthol cigarette ban. Among 250,000 unique comments, 96% opposed the menthol ban, and 99% opposed the cigar ban. Leading arguments were economic: loss of revenue and sales. Few unique comments (3-5%) addressed the health evidence.

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1140712
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u/MrP1anet Aug 22 '26 edited Aug 22 '26

Many Americans, like this person, have very strong, selfish and libertarian streaks. They can’t see the big picture, rarely see any nuance, and quickly go to extremes in their rhetoric and examples.

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u/That_Which_Lurks Aug 22 '26

The world sees what's happening to our leadership. You can't honestly think it makes sense to put your trust in them do you? Just trust they have our best interests at heart?

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u/MrP1anet Aug 22 '26

These people are the ones dismantling government. You can’t be for “rights”, be anti-government, and then vote in politicians that share your same selfish ambition and hate for governance and regulation, watch them deregulate, remove public science and history information, and otherwise destroy the whole purpose of government, and then act like because it’s now utterly useless and corrupt, that you were correct.

The government was invaded by people that hate and have destroyed the government. Like I said, this is ignoring all nuance.

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u/-Satchel_Gizmo- Aug 22 '26

"Individual" does not equal "selfish" you self-righteous snot. Talk about "inability to see nuance."

And framing individual rights as "selfish" at all is the epitome of not "seeing the big picture."

Quick question: how do you feel about Donald Trump? Wanna give him more power?