[Pulcinella]

I would say keep increasing taxes on tobacco (slowly) and explore other ways to make the purchase process and use inconvenient (i.e. use dark patterns "for good.")

Perhaps also explore legalizing marajuana (I think weed should be legal any way but I wonder what effects it would have on tobacco use. I wonder how that body handles a nicotine craving and then ingests marajuana instead.)

I understand the personal freedom and liberty arguements and I don't think we should jump straight to outlawing it(don't want organized crime taking up cigarette production). However, in the end cigarette's are addictive poison that tobacco companies sell to our people for profit. I won't feel bad if they are crushed by taxes and regulation.

Edit: Also, maybe, something with vaping. Maybe...

[freeflight]

> Perhaps also explore legalizing marajuana (I think weed should be legal any way but I wonder what effects it would have on tobacco use. I wonder how that body handles a nicotine craving and then ingests marajuana instead.)

This is pretty much one of the main reasons for my tobacco habit. Cannabis is hard to come by where I'm at (not the US), nobody smokes pure because most people don't have reliable enough supply, the supply shortages also make it quite expensive.

That's why lacing the weed with tobacco is very widespread, which leads to the odd situation that most people who want to try weed end up being addicted to tobacco.

[posterboy]

and the effect is stronger than filter cigarettes because it's unfiltered and presumably because cannabis would, just like menthol, open up the lungs.

[freeflight]

It's a rather nasty combination because the cannabis has lots of tar and most tobacco has tons of chemical additives added with the sole purpose to suppress coughing.

Because of those additives, tobacco+cannabis is way easier to smoke, resulting in people keeping hits in longer, which supposedly gives stronger effects but also more time for the tar to settle down in the lungs.

In that regard, it's odd how people keep on harping on about cannabis being "so much stronger than it used to be", while the tobacco industry literally spend decades and billions of $ to make their tobacco more potent, easier to smoke and as addictive as possible, by adding dozens of questionable chemicals.

At this point tobacco is probably one of the most overdesigned drugs in human history, I can't think of any other psychoactive substance that has had so much time, money and effort put into it.