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Smoking is something I truly despise, we all know that it is bad, really bad for you, we teach kids about it, yet people still start smoking.
Do as New Zealand did, set a cut off year, if you are born after 2015, you will not be permitted to buy tobacco at all.
Great. You've just made another illegal narcotic, a black market and a way of financing illegal activity.
I'd agree with you on that if tobacco was completely banned, but banning from a specific age, seems like a fairly low impact.
...and as time marches on?
The use would be drasticly cut down, we'll never get every one....
What I meant was that "a ban from a certain age" is a total ban eventually. Black market will grow as the ban becomes more and more complete.