Thanks to the the useless chowderhead Ruckleshaus who Nixon appointed head of EPA. And then Dickson didn’t stop the ban. I think his wife was instrumental too. My question why hasn’t this error been corrected in the intervening years? Answer? Because congress is useless as a dick on a cow. Raising tobacco age to 21 is more important than saving millions of lives,
Don’t assume this wasn’t the planned outcome; for decades Western elites had issues with the exploding populations of Asia and Africa (primarily due to the intervention of Western medicine), and this was probably one way to reverse that.
Red China’s control of its population, including the control of its growth, is the envy of Western elites; look at how our tech companies assist in perpetuating it - and how we’ve basically built their manufacturing economy while destroying our own.