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Smoking avatars and online games: how big tobacco targets young people in the metaverse
(www.theguardian.com)
this post was submitted on 22 Jul 2025
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Bigger news to me is that people are using the metaverse.
Do they have legs yet? Did they have cigarettes before they had legs?
The avatars smoked so we could walk.
maybe making news of problems that are "happening" in there are a way to, indirectly, trying to tell you "people is using this!! we are not wasted money!! we are relevant!!"
I'm surprised it still existed