• naevaTheRat@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        2 days ago

        Would you prefer private companies be doing it? The government is trying to reduce smoking and prices are low enough not to trap addicted people in poverty.

        It’s not like Phillip Morris does better.

        Drug production is such an obvious thing that should be nationalised to remove the profit incentive and introduce a degree of accountability and collective control.

      • Gold_E_Lox@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        2 days ago

        i guess anywhere with legal cigarettes have a level of state sponsored cancer, having it as a nationalised industry would probably aid in keeping things somewhat clean.

      • Karn, Liberated@slrpnk.net
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        2 days ago

        True socialists smoke a pack of Marxloros, the workers choice of cancer!

        At least China has cheaper/free healthcare.