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by yalogin 1645 days ago
I think there can be a place in between allowing it and incarcerating people. Make it illegal to sell and may be heavy fines for getting caught smoking?

Sure, there will be a black market for it but a lot of the low effort entrants to the market and many new entrants will be discouraged. Overall there will be less people using it.

I generally understand that prohibiting something with the threat of incarceration is wrong, but without some legal interference smoking is not going to go away.