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Originally Posted by PeteMoss
Do you think smoking won't decrease in the long run as a result of this? There's a lot more people who smoke and/or drink constantly than do illegal drugs - I assume a lot of that is just ease of acquiring the product.
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The prevalence of smoking tobacco in Canada is 15 per cent. Before pot was legalized, around 15 per cent of Canadians used it. I haven’t seen any figures for Canada yet, but in other constituencies like Colorado, the rate of marijuana use went up only a couple per cent after legalization.
Black markets with a large and profitable user base are extremely efficient at getting their products into the hands of users. Prohibition of alcohol in the U.S. did little to suppress use. Neither did prohibition of pot for 50 years. I don’t see any reason to believe prohibition of cigarettes would be any more successful, especially when you consider how addictive they are.