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Originally Posted by Roger
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?
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That's a decent way of looking at it I think. Cigarettes seem just a particularly dangerous vehicle of delivery to the user and to others. I think a ban like this would probably work since cigarette use is pretty much done in younger generations anyway. My middle school and high school kids talk about everyone vaping and some pot smoking, but I think someone actually smoking at school would bring the looks of someone bringing a Sony Walkman to school.