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A ban is supposed to do more than "reduce" it's supposed to eliminate. So no, it doesn't work.

• DubiousPusher 4y ago
  That's why I started this entire exchange with > This depends on your definition of the term "works". I think for a lot of governments and policy makers the goal is to significantly reduce. By your definition, literally every human intervention in history, prohibitory or otherwise has not "worked".
  • RoyGBivCap 4y ago
    >By your definition, literally every human intervention in history, prohibitory or otherwise has not "worked". Correct.
    • DubiousPusher 4y ago
      Even in scenarios where the specifically stated goal of a policy is a specific decline in some measure?
      • RoyGBivCap 4y ago
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