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  "title": "Tobacco, Seatbelts, and Food Safety: How Societies Learn to Regulate Design",
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  "thesis": "Societies have repeatedly moved harmful products from the frame of 'personal choice' to the frame of 'design and marketing accountability'; attention-extraction platforms are a candidate for the same transition.",
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      "claim": "Tobacco was marketed as a personal and even healthy choice before epidemiology shifted the regulatory frame.",
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          "snippet": "The WHO report on the global tobacco epidemic documents the historical marketing of tobacco as a socially acceptable and even health-associated product, and the subsequent shift toward evidence-based regulation.",
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          "snippet": "On 30 June 1906 President Roosevelt signed the Food and Drugs Act, known simply as the Wiley Act, after nearly a hundred bills had been introduced in Congress to regulate food and drugs since 1879.",
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          "summary": "The relative importance of each factor differed by issue and jurisdiction; some transitions relied more on market liability than on regulation.",
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          "summary": "Attention platforms also enable education, civic organizing, and economic opportunity; treating them solely as harms risks over-regulating speech and innovation.",
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      "title": "FDA: Part I — The 1906 Food and Drugs Act and Its Enforcement",
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