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Cake day: June 19th, 2023

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  • Are they getting rid of regulations on tobacco products? Article says there will be more oversight. And because there are still legitimate avenues for people who aren’t impacted, there won’t be much support for black markets to develop.

    Some of the changes will prevent exposure of other people to smoke. That’s going to overall reduce danger from tobacco products at the population level. Even if it makes smoking more dangerous for those that defy the law, the number of people overall exposed to both firsthand and secondhand smoke is going to be reduced. I’d take that trade-off, but I don’t think the danger to would be smokers is going to increase.

    The amount of people who quit drinking directly because of prohibition was about 70% of the population at first decreasing to about 40% as prohibition continued. That’s not negligible. There are plenty of negative consequences that happened because of it, though. I don’t, however, think the UK is going to get a vape mafia.