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  • JackFrostNCola@lemmy.worldtoAsklemmy@lemmy.mlHow is nicotine legal?
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    9 months ago

    I beleive they will, here in australia the gov has been slowly but surely driving up taxes on cigarettes until the point where its such an expensive habit that people wont get hooked in the first place because why spend all that money on durries when you could spend it on some much more enjoyable and affordable instead - before you get to the addiction stage.

    This is along with changing laws to deincentivise smokers, such as plain packaging laws to remove advertising appeal, banning indoor smoking and smoking within x-meters of a building doorway, etc.

    And now vapes are the new thing the tobacco industry is pushing they have outright banned nicotine vapes and cartridges importing and buying.

    If they create a generation that never starts smoking then will anyone resist banning it by the time the last smokers die out?