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[โ€“] [email protected] 77 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Between the massive corporate wealth at stake and the millions of people literally addicted to the product, it's hard now to imagine governments being able to ban them (and I lived through it).

[โ€“] [email protected] 31 points 1 week ago (3 children)

And now we have vaping.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 26 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Infinitely better for health and can only be used in private spaces or outside in most countries, would rather have some rights than none

[โ€“] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Which the Aussie government banned, yet didnโ€™t even touch cigarettes.

[โ€“] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Essentially banned, now requiring a prescription to obtain any components and destroying small business

[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

i through they also stopped the sale of cigs to anyone born after a cutoff date?

[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

That was NZ I think and I also think it ended up on the back burner for some reason (I assume lobbying)

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

In smoking areas or outside only.

[โ€“] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago

Lol I'm a school bus driver and a number of my colleagues vape on the fucking buses. They imagine they're being super-secret about it - they're somehow oblivious to the giant cloud of smoke each hit creates. Never underestimate the power of nicotine addiction to force people to relentlessly push the boundaries of where and when.