• Zrybew@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    Bruh, they’re trying to make sure the next generation who never smoke, don’t start smoking.

    The same way they ensured our generation didn’t have to deal with asbestos or lead pipes.

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      10 months ago

      what about banning crimes? wouldn’t making crimes illegal solve all our problems?

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          10 months ago

          Either you don’t have good reading comprehension or you are trolling. To spell it out for in case you are really challenged crimes are already ilegal by definition and yet that doesn’t make society free from crime. In other words your assumption of this working is delusional

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        10 months ago

        ? Alcohol consumption has been dropping consistently with each new generation…

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          10 months ago

          That’s because of gradual shifts in culture and attitudes, not due to prohibition.

          Prohibition has failed to effectively “ban” any drug, and often tends to encourage their usage and harm efforts to alleviate addiction.

          Tobacco smoking is also declining in many nations in response to improved public health awareness and again cultural shifts. If those trends continue it could all but fade away naturally. Tobacco prohibition is arguably not necessary and could even become counterproductive.