• DrCake@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    You know banning smoking would never work. Just look at how ubiquitous weed and cocaine use is. Also if smoking only affected the person smoking then it would be fine, but second hand smoke is a health issue and it just fucking stinks.

    • Letstakealook@lemm.ee
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      2 months ago

      Smoking can be reduced without banning smoking. Unfortunately, mitigation methods like vaping are treated the same as smoking, because fuck poor people trying to quit. Additionally, massively taxing the producers would put them out of business, and there would be less of a black market because there really isn’t a “high” from nicotine and the crop isn’t really practible on the small scale.