• db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    I think you severely underestimate how ingrained tobacco was ingrained in Europe as well. It’s absolutely false to say Tombacco wasn’t ingrained for a century. In the 80s everything smelled of smoke. Tobacco didn’t start being phased out in Eu until well in the 1990, and speaking of my country, in the 2000s. Sorry but given what I’ve seen of China, they’re dragging their feet, which can be easily seen from how easily they make bypassing the things that actually work without “making gang warfare”, like putting proper warnings on their cigarettes boxes.

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          12 hours ago

          I read the article, I also looked up chinese cigarette warnings. They have warnings.

          They’re like the same as Icelands

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            12 hours ago

            The warnings in China are not nearly visually strong enough which as I said, it’s just a way for China to say they’re doing something without actually being disruptive.

            As for warning labels on cigarette packs, China Tobacco retains the authority to set its own standards. Unsurprisingly, it has selected only vague warnings, such as “Smoking is Harmful to Health,” and on many brands, the color schemes allow the warnings to blend seamlessly into the background of the packaging.

            FFS! The video actually shows you how ridiculously mild these warnings are

            Sorry but at this point I’m just seeing too much fucking campist behaviour and I’m not going to engage anymore with that shit. You refuse to look at the evidence people have given to you in the most easily digestible form, in favor of running interference for a goddamn capitalist state.

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              12 hours ago

              Looking at the warnings is not looking at evidence? I’m not watching an hour long non verifiable video lol. Someone linked the article it’s based on and it’s not academic but sort of ok although doesn’t actually cite much and I had to do a bunch of work to check various claims.

              People should just link verifiable shit or refer to specific, fact checkable events and statistics. Youtube is just random people, it’s magazine articles for the illiterate.

              But whatever. No matter what they did you’d find some measure where they weren’t doing your ideal thing and call it deficient. A criticism that could be leveled against any country. They’re doing better then Vietnam, Indonesia, slightly worse than Thailand, they’re better in women than Japan but worse for men. whatever. China bad I guess.