Tobacco consumption is also a pandemic, and should be countered with realistic, not idealistic, policies

Date is approximate — the source document has no dateline, only the COVID-19 framing throughout (comparing tobacco’s death toll to the pandemic response) placing it in 2020. Kasera, described as “an IT professional and a tobacco harm reduction advocate,” argues for pragmatic harm reduction (snus, e-cigarettes) over abstinence-only policy, cites the UK/Sweden experience, and calls for government disinvestment from tobacco businesses and redirecting tobacco tax revenue to cessation infrastructure. Not previously on the site.