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Question 18: Using modern experience, describe some implications, good or bad, of the indifference of market relations towards the nature of the needs which the commodity satisfies.

[21] Ann: The classic example of a commodity that has bad implications on mankind, but is not taken into consideration from the distributer, are cigarettes. Millions die each year from smoking related diseases. The cigarette distributers do not think of these serious effects only the profits that can be made.

Hans: Good example. And it is not an oversight; the tobacco industries are very aware of the effects which smoking has on health.

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