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Originally Posted by Azure
lol, didn't take long for the moronic anti-vaxx argument to come up. Give your head a shake.
What this is really about is whether or not prohibition (banning something) works.
It doesn't. End of story. We literally have 100 years of data to prove that.
But lets go another round with stupid policies that just serve to make a government look like they're doing something. In New Zealand's case, it is right on par with a lot of other policies to 'serve the greater good.'
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This isn’t the same as prohibition. Prohibition took something away from everybody at the same time. This is a new strategy to phase one particular method of delivering something that is not being banned. You can still have tobacco. You can still have nicotine. You can drink a gallon of formaldehyde. Cigarettes themselves as the all in one delivery method is getting phased out on people that are way too young to even start smoking. But if they’re dead set on getting cigs, then yeah, there’ll be a bit of a black market for it.
This is like phasing out leaded gas. Land mines. CFCs. What is so hard to comprehend here?