Tobacco industry boss: smoking two packs a day is not addiction.

16 hours?!? Fuck… mine are rookie numbers and I know I am addicted…

Sorry, a double shift of one activity per day isn't an addiction? If anybody is DOING anything for 16 hours straight, then that's an addiction. Only exception I can think of is sleeping, but that's only in very specific circumstances, and not for a prolonged period of time.

That is the quote of a man who is thriving under deregulation. In the current political climate, huge corporations can do whatever the hell they want and blame their consumers. The EU still has some guardrails, so I am glad to live in Europe. However, as the car industry lobby already proved, those can be eroded as well.

!nottheonion@lemmy.world is this way

I want this guy to tell me how many hours a day you'd need to be high on heroine in order to be "addicted".

Sounds like something an addict would say.

Joke’s aside though I’m happy with my meta-free life after leaving it all behind shortly after the last election results and it being clear that robot boy was (pretending to be) a fan of the orange man.

Only thing I can’t leave yet is WhatsApp because my volunteering group won’t switch. They are mostly boomers so it’s really difficult to get them to move.

So you sleep, Instagram, sleep, Instagram... So glad I got InstaDM

So if later, when digging through company emails during some deposition, it turns out that this slithering lying snake obviously knew better, we will have proof that he knowingly and willingly harmed children for money.

We will jail that fucker for life, then, right? All the world wide harm he has caused to so many kids? Of course we'll do.... Nothing.

The owners of the company that gave us the opioid epidemic knew full well that people got addicted to their heroine, and were dying from it, making them push it even harder, because more money. How many of them saw jail time?

None. We gave them a small tax on their ridiculous profits and they got a movie made where we make them look bad. Seriously, if somebody goes and shoot this entire family down, full Kristy noem doggy style, I would celebrate it as that person would have made the world a better place.

There are vile, evil people out there

Now imagine the quote is about cocaine.

Is he brain damaged? He sounds brain damaged.

"If [cigarettes] are behaviorally addictive or habit forming, they are much more like … Gummi Bears... I'm certainly not addicted to them."

-Philip Morris CEO

That's just a warm up! Hold my beer!

whew, that's relieving to hear. good to know I'm not addicted

Þe vacant stare says volumes.

Why hasn’t anyone shot him?

His argument is: 16 hours daily use is not addiction IF THAT IS THE ONLY FACTOR. He repeats it again and again. But that argument is stupid, because it ignores the other well-known and proven variables of addiction. Does this behavior have serious effects on your mental and physical health? Does it interrupt your work and play? Do you have an obsessive need to do it? The list goes on.

Who put this genius in front of a microphone?

Yes, it's a suicide attempt.