Varven@lemmy.world to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml · edit-27 months agoWhat isn't illegal but should be?message-squaremessage-square69fedilinkarrow-up13arrow-down10
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minus-squarePonyOfWar@pawb.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up5·7 months agoSmoking. Millions of euros of taxpayer money spent every year on those lung cancer patients which could be well spent elsewhere. It’s also an activity that negatively affects not just the smoker but everyone around them.
minus-squarestoy@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkarrow-up2·7 months agoSmoking 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.
minus-squarewewbull@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·7 months agoGreat. You’ve just made another illegal narcotic, a black market and a way of financing illegal activity.
minus-squarestoy@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkarrow-up0·7 months agoI’d agree with you on that if tobacco was completely banned, but banning from a specific age, seems like a fairly low impact.
minus-squareBlueÆther@no.lastname.nzlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·7 months agothen have a right leaning government win the next election and roll it back https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/510439/smokefree-generation-law-scrapped-by-coalition-government
minus-squareumbrella@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up1·edit-27 months agoi hate tobacco but prohibition doesnt work. we should have learned that lesson with alcohol and weed but it seems we did not.
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minus-squareTaalnazi@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkNederlandsarrow-up0·7 months agoExactly, and the rhetoric “it pays for themselves” also doesn’t hold up, since there is still second hand and third hand smoke.
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Smoking. Millions of euros of taxpayer money spent every year on those lung cancer patients which could be well spent elsewhere. It’s also an activity that negatively affects not just the smoker but everyone around them.
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?
then have a right leaning government win the next election and roll it back https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/510439/smokefree-generation-law-scrapped-by-coalition-government
i hate tobacco but prohibition doesnt work.
we should have learned that lesson with alcohol and weed but it seems we did not.
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Nice try, tobacco marketing executive…
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Exactly, and the rhetoric “it pays for themselves” also doesn’t hold up, since there is still second hand and third hand smoke.
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