• Caveman@lemmy.world
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          6 hours ago

          I’m not, he’s not comparing cigarettes to social media, he’s saying that social media has replaced cigarettes as the vice of choice for young people.

          Hes does compare it to Radium poisoning though.

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            5 hours ago

            He literally makes an analogous comparison in the first sentence to cigarettes and social media.

            So I say again, why were you ignoring the obvious comparisons that I was referencing with my reply?

            And for the record, I completely disagree with your apples vs oranges dismissal.

            They are not apples and oranges, as both cigarettes and social media use are directly linked to statistically significant poor health outcomes in people who use them.

            But, if you really have a problem with that comparison, you should have replied to the person who introduced that lengthy line of conversation and not just people quickly responding to it.