• fosforus@sopuli.xyz
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    1 year ago

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

    • Ð Greıt Þu̇mpkin@lemm.ee
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      1 year ago

      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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        1 year ago

        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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          1 year 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.

    • V H@lemmy.stad.social
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      1 year 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?