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Child Advocates Back Surgeon General's Call for Tobacco-Like Warnings on Social Media
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this post was submitted on 18 Jun 2024
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Have those warning labels been shown to work like at all? We already have awareness saturation about just how awful cigarettes are for you.
Warnings probably work better on products you're putting in your body. If you have blackened lungs on the cigarette packaging I can't imagine choosing to smoke.
On social media, you basically have to destroy my experience for me to stop using it in the same way. All effective options are terrible: ads, microtransactions, auto-playing unexpected sounds, nonresponsive interfaces.