> If all kinds of straws would disappear overnight, people's quality of life would not be affected the slightest

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For example, take the boba straws mentioned in the article. The experience of sucking up the tapioca balls as you consume the drink depends on the wide straw.

Remove the straw, and the experience is totally different; you would get hardly any tapioca balls until you were all the way to the bottom of the drink.

Now, maybe you don't give a shit about that, but then it's just a value judgment.