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History has shown prohibition can be… problematic. Just tax it very very heavily and apply education / social pressure?

• nutjob2 6mo ago
  See the problems with the Australian system, which is basically what you describe.
  • HDBaseT 6mo ago
    Exactly this. Australia (and the States) tried to impose ever increasing tax and restriction on smoking and over the last few years, smoking has reached critical mass, with more people smoking, cheaper smokes, and smokes becoming more available AND less regulated. Previously a 20 pack was around $40-60 at most smoke shops, then the illegal darts started to come in, they were priced as low as $6 or $8 for the cheapest 20 pack. They become rampant and barely anyone purchased genuine smokes. In fact, these illegal smoke stores were exactly like real smoke shops, proper business, proper storefront and everything. Excluding the prices, you couldn't tell you were buying illegal products.