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Good point bringing up smoking. Why don’t they just make smoking illegal in every country ? Because it’s impractical. Same as this law.

• DavidPiper 2y ago
  And yet the things they have done have gone a long way to reducing the real harms caused by smoking. A 5% spread of harm in a population is better than spread across 80% or 90%, etc. Taking action to reduce the surface area of harm, even if 0% is impractical, is beneficial to a functioning society.
• cma 2y ago
  I agree parents should have the choice for kids using social media, but this example of impracticality is a bit off: cigarettes are illegal for kids in nearly all developed countries.
  • matwood 2y ago
    Smoking is also highly regulated now. It’s almost a surprise to see someone smoking nowadays.
  • XorNot 2y ago
    And yet over half my high school year smoked, and I was absolutely peer pressured to start.
• xxs 2y ago
  The point of smoking is about the origins of the term 'nanny state' [0]: [0]: https://wordhistories.net/2020/10/03/nanny-state/ https://wordhistories.net/2020/10/03/nanny-state/
• thaumasiotes 2y ago
  > Why don’t they just make smoking illegal in every country ? Because it’s impractical. Is that also the reason they don't make cocaine illegal in every country?
• throwawaythekey 2y ago
  I find it uncomfortable that so many of the arguments focus on practicality and that so few focus on liberty. It almost seems like a forgotten concept.