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by tonyedgecombe 1898 days ago
Cigarettes are legal yet many Western countries have been successful at driving down their use.
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mc32 1898 days ago
Do you think if we made them illegal use would go up or go down?
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tonyedgecombe 1898 days ago
Did people stop drinking alcohol during prohibition?
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mc32 1898 days ago
That wasn’t the question, but rather, did consumption go down? I believe the answer was yes, it did go down but alcohol is so ingrained in society for so many millennia that prohibiting it will not shut off consumption.
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