In practice the benefits were dubious
As the University of California at San Franciscos Center for Tobacco Control Research and Education reports, by 2013, all six of the major outfits had put into place their own policies that mirror Netflixs recent announcement, all focused on youth-rated films (any film rated under an R)
Not everyone has the same level of care requirements, so they do not all require the same level of assisted living
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Government needed the income from taxes One reason has to be that governments are always short of money and smoking was very heavily taxed
Also, a friend of mine whos working at a company thats producing young shows, long-form shows for YouTube creators, told me that a lot of the money is coming from Democrat super PACs because they want a captive audience to be programmed politically