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Companies keep selling harmful products – but history shows consumers can win in the end

  • Written by Jonathan D. Quick, Adjunct Professor of Global Health, Duke Global Health Institute, Duke University
imageA "Cancer Country" sign on a taxi parodies a famous Marlboro ad campaign.Viviane Moos/Corbis via Getty Images

In 2023, 42 state attorneys general sued Meta to remove Instagram features that Meta’s own studies had shown – and independent research had confirmed – are harmful to teenage girls.

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