NightOwl@lemm.ee to Canada@lemmy.ca · 7 months agoBan selling cigarettes to anyone born after 2008, Ottawa Public Health urges Health Canadaottawacitizen.comexternal-linkmessage-square40fedilinkarrow-up1126arrow-down17
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minus-squaresbv@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up15·7 months agoI like the idea of nobody smoking, but any policy like this probably needs to be coupled with some kind of enforcement. Half or more of cigarette sales are already illegal: Illegal cigarette sales could comprise up to 67 per cent of Ontario’s total tobacco market, 45 per cent in B.C. and 44 per cent in Newfoundland.
minus-squaredetalferous@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up7arrow-down1·7 months agoI like the idea too, but prohibition has never been successful at anything other than creating black markets
I like the idea of nobody smoking, but any policy like this probably needs to be coupled with some kind of enforcement. Half or more of cigarette sales are already illegal:
I like the idea too, but prohibition has never been successful at anything other than creating black markets