• stoy@lemmy.zip
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    3 months ago

    Smoking is something I truly despise, we all know that it is bad, really bad for you, we teach kids about it, yet people still start smoking.

    Do as New Zealand did, set a cut off year, if you are born after 2015, you will not be permitted to buy tobacco at all.

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      3 months ago

      Great. You’ve just made another illegal narcotic, a black market and a way of financing illegal activity.

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        3 months ago

        I’d agree with you on that if tobacco was completely banned, but banning from a specific age, seems like a fairly low impact.

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            3 months ago

            The use would be drasticly cut down, we’ll never get every one…

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              3 months ago

              What I meant was that “a ban from a certain age” is a total ban eventually. Black market will grow as the ban becomes more and more complete.

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      3 months ago

      What I find amusing is that the cigarettes packages where I live have disgusting images with the potential sickness it comes from its usage, and yet people still buy them 'hey man, this will literally kill you someday" warning does not work.

      I thought this was a well known measure but it seems that my USA cousin did not know about this kind of marketing.

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      3 months ago

      They ought to increase it by 2 years every time. That way people have to get clean. Also, we ( US citizens) should take control of all tobacco companies, and wind them down, putting all profits and assets towards addiction recovery services, and cancer treatments.

      They’ve been making billions off of slowly killing people for the last 100+ years, they don’t need one more fucking day.