• Artyom@lemm.ee
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    8 months ago

    People will drive to county limits, but policies like this have been shown to actually be quite effective. Even if you are willing to drive to a neighboring county, will you do it as often?

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      8 months ago

      policies like this have been shown to actually be quite effective

      United States, 1920s, alcohol.

      Very much the opposite

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        8 months ago

        That’s a very different scenario and it required committing crimes to drink. County-level policies like cigarette bans and sugar taxes have legal ways for you to bypass them, but still discourage use.