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[–] 63 points 3 years ago* (6 children)

Great goal but like with all other narcotics, wouldn't this just create a huge black market and thus massively fund criminal organizations?

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  • [–] 18 points 3 years ago (3 children)

    I'm not so sure

    Cigarettes are not often seen with the same attraction as other drugs

    The draw from younger potential customers is greatly outweighed by far less harmful stuff like weed or even shrooms

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  • [–] 20 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    Cigarettes are not often seen with the same attraction as other drugs

    And the best way to change that is by making them illegal.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 years ago

    For something to be attractive on the black market it'd have to be attractive on its own.

    Cigarettes have abjectly lost that race ever since the campaign of trotting every lung cancer patient able to be found in front of the cameras was normalized.

    Especially when the supposed upshot of it is something you can get for much cheaper and way less dangerously with weed.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago

    I think chances are we are at a stage where most would-be smokers would just opt for vaping, given that while it sounds like he wants some restrictions on that as well, it doesn't like that'd be subjected to the year over year age increase?

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