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[โ€“] [email protected] 72 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (17 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] 29 points 1 week ago (16 children)

And now we have vaping.

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[โ€“] Moc 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€“] 9point6 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)

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