Rishi Sunak has proposed raising the smoking age every year in a move welcomed by health charities but criticised by those in the tobacco industry.
  • assassin_aragorn@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    That law is an excellent example of knowledge vs wisdom. Knowledge is knowing that some substances may be carcinogenic. Wisdom is knowing that the dosage of a carcinogen is so low it hardly poses any risk.

    To be fair though that’s hard to put on a warning label and harder to explain.