• _number8_@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    aside from the issue of ‘prohibition still doesn’t work’, i don’t think giving kids or “underage” adults criminal charges for cigarettes is making anything better for anyone

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      1 year ago

      I know this is pretty radical, but if we made smoking FFA way fewer people should theoretically start smoking in the first place. From my experience when I was still at school most of the people there were only smoking because it’s “cool”, making smoking legal for everyone should take the coolness factor away at least.

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        1 year ago

        Please, oh dear god…

        Please tell me what FFA means and how it doesn’t amount to “send poor people to prison”.

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          1 year ago

          FFA just means “free for all” (it’s a term from competitive games, in case you shouldn’t know), in this context I used it as another word for ‘legal’.

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            1 year ago

            Oh thank god.

            Yes, I 100 percent agree with you. Your thought process is the way.

            Sorry I was so adversarial in my first comment. A lot of the rest of this thread has me all sorts of triggered.