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[โ€“] [email protected] 74 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months 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] 28 points 3 months ago (16 children)

And now we have vaping.

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[โ€“] Moc 9 points 3 months ago (2 children)

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

[โ€“] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

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

[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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

[โ€“] 9point6 8 points 3 months 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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