• KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      6 months ago

      Is there a “predominantly white” flavor of cigarette? Can you explain how you would take steps to ban cigarettes, without “targeting minorities” and without an immediate outright ban?

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        6 months ago

        I wouldn’t take steps to ban cigarettes. Prohibition never stops people from doing what they want to do, usually makes things worse, and usually disproportionally affects minorities.

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            6 months ago

            Stay the course. Smoking is trending down. Continue educational programs so everyone knows the risks, but ultimately leave it up to adults to make their own decisions.

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          6 months ago

          And yet, overall. Smoking reduction efforts in the US have been pretty effective.

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                  6 months ago

                  Well, since this isn’t proposing “banning cigarettes”, and nothing in the parent comments was about banning them outright (in fact the opposite was the point), then it made no sense that you would be asking about that.

                  I thought you meant banning SOME cigarettes (or ban smoking in some cases) which would have been way more relevant.

                  But there are many kinds of cigarettes that are banned (and this would be another one), and many scenarios where smoking is banned. Those sorts of things have been part of why smoking has dropped significantly, without outright banning.

                  Hence, you know, the context of the things you were replying to here.