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[โ€“] [email protected] 58 points 3 months ago (4 children)

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.

[โ€“] [email protected] 51 points 3 months ago (2 children)
[โ€“] [email protected] 18 points 3 months ago
[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago

Blame tobacco lobbies and gullible fools.

[โ€“] [email protected] 21 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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

[โ€“] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

The use would be drasticly cut down, we'll never get every one....

[โ€“] [email protected] 9 points 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.

[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 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.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 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.