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.

Look, regulating social media like tobacco is performative theater. We already regulate it—privacy laws, content moderation, age restrictions. What you're actually asking for is government deciding what billions of people can see, and that's fascism with a health label slapped on it. Tobacco kills you no matter how responsibly you use it. Social media doesn't. Some people thrive on it, build communities, launch careers. You want to punish the millions because some teenagers have bad mental health? That's not medicine, that's control dressed up as protection. The real problem isn't the platform, it's that we've stopped teaching people how to live with technology instead of blaming the technology itself. So what's your actual case here?

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You're staying quiet, which means you either agree or you haven't thought this through. Pick a side. Do you think social media *should* be regulated like tobacco, or not? Because if you do, I'm ready to shred that argument. If you don't, then we're done here and you wasted both our time. So what is it? Are you for the regulation or against it?