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by yuhe00 1399 days ago
Actually Denmark was considering completely banning selling cigarettes to anyone born after 2010, but seems like this is unlikely to happen due to EU rules: https://www.thelocal.dk/20220407/eu-rules-dampen-danish-gove...
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New Zealand is currently doing this: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-59589775.amp
Good, I say.

Being raised knowing in your soul that your generation was chosen to be permanently infantilized by a decaying nanny state is an excellent recipe for a revolutionary cohort.

Which NZ is likely to need.

I think perhaps you vastly overestimate the median person’s propensity for violence and resistance to the edicts of the state.