it's far, far easier now for that market to exist for cigarettes than it would be if they weren't sold openly and without hassle at every store you enter
Yes, we should make cigarettes extremely hard to purchase. We should also ban advertising for ciggs and the vast majority of the chemicals they put in them. No flavours, no methnol, no colourful packaging.
But we should not ban them because prohibition rarely works on something people can grow in their sheds. Something legal but hard to get will have far less of a market than an easily accessible but illegal product.
it's far, far easier now for that market to exist for cigarettes than it would be if they weren't sold openly and without hassle at every store you enter
Yes, we should make cigarettes extremely hard to purchase. We should also ban advertising for ciggs and the vast majority of the chemicals they put in them. No flavours, no methnol, no colourful packaging.
But we should not ban them because prohibition rarely works on something people can grow in their sheds. Something legal but hard to get will have far less of a market than an easily accessible but illegal product.