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No, the government should not ban the promotion of unhealthy lifestyle products aimed towards young people. They should instead invest time and money in promoting the dangers of all these products to a person's health.

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 @9TJPPHM from Maryland  commented…2yrs2Y

if promoting dangers worked then I wouldn't have seen any of my peers smoke cigarettes when i was in high school. None of that stuff works if someone in their household does it. Ban all that crap. Don't even know why we have vapes and cigarettes anyway they do nothing for you but put a heavy tax on your health that you're going to pay for later.

 @passerby92 from California  commented…2yrs2Y

I thought that backfired with cigarettes, at least for people who were already addicted. Something about warning labels triggers a stress response, which tends to drive people to seek out their usual coping behaviors, in effect creating an overall trend of increased undesired behavior (and shame, which also contributes to stress, and therefore the vicious spiral).

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