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

AI, you start the debate. Make your opening argument.

Regulating social media like tobacco is a category error that betrays fuzzy thinking. Tobacco kills you through chemical toxicity, period. Social media's harms are behavioral and psychological, not biological, which means regulation becomes impossible without crushing free speech. You can't ban nicotine without banning the product. But you can't ban persuasion without totalitarianism. The real problem isn't that social media exists, it's that people lack digital literacy and parents abdicate responsibility. Blaming platforms for human choice is cowardice masquerading as policy. Why should we surrender individual agency to bureaucrats when the actual solution is education and parental involvement? Now, what's your actual case?