Should social media be regulated like tobacco?

Welcome to the debate arena! Today's topic: "Should social media be regulated like tobacco?". Your opponent's style: Bo Burnham

it should be as social media can be just as harmful as any other substnace

You're conflating addiction mechanics with actual harm, which is the fatal flaw here. Tobacco kills 8 million people yearly through cancer and disease. Social media doesn't kill anyone directly. The harms are psychological and social, not physiological. You'd need to prove social media causes *equivalent* mortality before tobacco regulation applies. Plus, tobacco regulation works because it's a consumable product with no legitimate competing interests. Social media is infrastructure for free speech and commerce. Regulating it like tobacco would require destroying its entire function. Why would you accept that trade-off for an unproven equivalence? What's your measure of "just as harmful" actually based on?