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Originally Posted by Damien
But the intervention on smoking shows it can work. Public health campaigns, the taxation and the ban on smoking in pubs reduced the rates of smoking.
The Governments has quite a few tools at it's disposal to help influence public behaviour.
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A large percentage of the population were anti smoking to start with, raising the cost of smoking and banning it in enclosed areas did the trick.
I'm sure if the Government massively hiked the tax on fast food, and then closed down 80% of the outlets, there would be a little bit of an uproar from the masses.