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Smoking ban for people born after 2008 in the UK agreed
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What a dumb thing. Prohibition literally never works, and this might be the dumbest way to try prohibition that I've ever heard
Nope and like I said it does nothing to address the root causes of addiction, this is a classic blunder.
It's gotta be a neoclassical blunder because now you have more than enough evidence to confirm 10x over prohibition doesn't work. So the ignorance is worse because it doesn't work, you radicalize some people by doing something that obvious, and even the people that like you who know better roll their eyes
When I was 13 I remember long middle school assemblies about the health risks of vaping, and the consensus among half my friends was "yeah yeah we know it's fucking our health but we're depressed and don't care"
In the US vaping is illegal under 21, and my state even universally banned flavored vape juice when I was in high school. Yet every public HS bathroom in the fucking country still smells like artificial mango or blue raspberry or whatever
I'm in uni and I swear half my generation is in the 1950s when it comes to nicotine. It's literally the first drug most middle or high schoolers try, before even alcohol or weed, just bc some kids carry it in their backpacks/pockets EVERYWHERE and offer their friends a hit in the school bathroom
On the plus side it acts as febreeze when someone's taking a shit
I had my first cigarette in middle school. It was kinda awful and low key kept me away from nicotine for a while. It wasn’t until college that nicotine really sunk its teeth in and I think part of that is due to early vapes and hookah.
Still, I shudder to think about what health condition I’d be in if vapes weren’t an option and as mentioned, hookah has been around the whole time adding flavors to nicotine and making it “cool”
It feels like smoking/nicotine is ubiquitous in the late teens, early 20's but it drops off hard by the time your social circle starts hitting 30. College age is peak nicotine use
And yet your prohibit certain kinds of posts. Curious.
It's different when I do it because I'm a tankie and therefore I'm automatically correct
Sending death threats to people who say "I loved that Hbomberguy video on Dark Souls 2" is my smoking and just as bad for me health-wise. Let me post.
Prohibition never stops all use.
It sometimes reduces use, though, and that still fulfills their goals.
It might reduce use, but the cost of doing it this way is absolutely not worth it. There are other and better ways
Those other and better ways would also reduce behaviors they want. After all, they still want people to waste their money!