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I’m sure this will work as intended.
New black market incoming
Why work smart when you can work hard…
why work smart when you can work dumb by repeating old mistakes
Because Prohibition and the War on Drugs worked so well in the US, I guess?
Some parts of this bill, increasing the places where vaping is not permitted in line with smoking, are very welcome.
But bans of addictive substances only result in criminalising people who are addicted and putting them more at risk of harm, because now in addition to lung cancer they’ll have black market goons to deal with as well.
Smoking is already on a consistent, significant decline in the UK.
Risking a black market (let’s be clear actually - definitely causing one) hardly seems worth a possible increased rate of decline.
The best way to make cigarettes cool to kids is to make them fully illegal, this is a nonsense law unless you are trying to increase the amount of kids smoking cigarettes.
They already are illegal for kids. For them, nothing changes. Why would it be cooler for then? Is crack cooler then alcohol today?
Why would it be cooler for then?
Because they just became more illegal.
I gave the full title from the get go and haven’t changed it. But the preview is funny and maybe it will come to that.
Good 😊
Yeah… Criminalizing shit always works…
Why not just ban smoking?
If I were to guess, it’s because a blanket ban would turn the people who actually go out and vote against you.
I’d’ve assumed the addiction factor. Forcing an addict to quit could cause stress that won’t be present for those who haven’t started, yet.
But literally just a guess, on my part.
Because of the existing addicts. It would create a black market.
Because people don’t like to be told what to do. Why create a black market when there is already a steep and steady decline?
What could go wrong when making laws depending on entire generations
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Tell everyone that they’ll regret it at an early age
