• M500@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    Eventually stores will just stop selling them. Why stock cigarette when you only sell 10 packs a month.

    I think it’s a great idea. People will create a black market for them, but it will be really small and die out.

    It’s not like you really get anything from it like you do from alcohol or other drugs.

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      1 year ago

      People will create a black market for them, but it will be really small and die out.

      There’s already a black market for tobacco, and it will just grow in size not shrink. You can buy 50g for like £5 on DNMs.

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        1 year ago

        Yeah, the risk is that if the black market becomes large enough, it will mean youths will have easier access to cheaper cigarettes than the current situation (with the added issue of cigarettes being entirely unregulated, meaning they’re going to put God knows what in them).

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      1 year ago

      It’s not like you really get anything from it like you do from alcohol or other drugs.

      Similar ehhhhhh as earlier.

      There are moments when a cigarette gives you an amazing or just right, feeling, for lack of a better word. In reality you’re just sating a self inflicted addiction, but it can feel great to do so.

      I don’t think it’s a good trade, that’s why I no longer smoke, but I understand the simple pleasure. Even if in the long, medium, heck, often even short term that pleasure has stupid costs.

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      1 year ago

      Let’s ban people from smoking because it doesn’t even get you high like meth does. Great argument.