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[โ€“] militaryintelligence@lemmy.world 4 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

This should interest you: The DARE program to keep kids off drugs, talk about drugs and vapes being bad. No mention of cigarettes

[โ€“] Rottcodd@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

I didn't know that, but I'm cynically unsurprised.

A curious fact adjacent to that:

The US tobacco settlement is still ongoing. Each year, tobacco companies have to pay a particular amount of money to state governments, nominally to help offset the societal costs of smoking.

The total amount of the payments made to a specific state in a specific year depends on the number of cigarettes sold in that state the previous year. Not tobacco products in general, but cigarettes specifically.

It's safe to assume that that's relevant.