Lauren Weinstein on Nostr: As much as I despise cigarettes, the British proposal to increase the legal age for ...
As much as I despise cigarettes, the British proposal to increase the legal age for smoking year by year in an attempt to eventually ban them is inane. It will simply create a black market and cause far more damage in the end. This kind of prohibition never works and is beneath stupidity.
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