Tobacco use is a major contributor to a host of cancers, its responsible for 25% of all cancer deaths worldwide, amounting to an estimated 2.5 million deaths annually
Such excessive caution suggests disproportionate risk-aversion: it appears the FDA does not intend to authorize flavored products without DAR, and only reluctantly with DAR, even though these flavors are by far the most popular among adults and widely available in the illicit market
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Some may use opioids to cope with untreated mental illness, trauma, or other stressors
We see them now applied to climate change, gun violence, questioning of the effectiveness of social programs, and a host of other issues where the most fundamental insight of the tobacco industry is applied: you don't have to get everybody to agree with your fantastic version of reality, you just have to make ordinary people believe that the experts don't really know