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Cigarettes have been age restricted for around 100 years. Not related to your 1990 to 2020 time period at all. If you weren't aware, smoking became uncool a lo

Cigarettes have been age restricted for around 100 years. Not related to your 1990 to 2020 time period at all. If you weren't aware, smoking became uncool a long time ago. Teens who consume tobacco use vapes or Zyn now.

breezybottom 2mo ago
That doesn't mean it was enforced.
- pessimizer 2mo ago
  Was it? Are you just saying throwing manure, or do you think that children were regularly buying cigarettes in stores until just a decade ago? Do you think that pornographers and social networks are desperate for child users, and that they provide a significant amount of income? Do you think that rooting everyone's computer so the sites can comply by flipping a switch and never have to hear about this again will bother them in the slightest, except for pornographers being afraid that adults afraid to lose their anonymity will stop visiting? Social media has been trying to deanonymize users since Facebook's real name policy and G+. Deanonymized users are worth more. They love this idea, and don't give a shit about losing 17 year olds. It's proof that governments will do anything, even reinterpret their constitutions, in order to preserve the right of online multinationals to algorithmically manipulate adults for money.
  - breezybottom 2mo ago
    Yes. Child porn was commercially sold in Europe and Japan until the late 2000s. There is no line that people won't cross for money.
    - pmontra 2mo ago
      I think that by "Child users" parent meant children buying porn or selling porn to children. It probably happened but I think that it was much less common than children getting a porn magazine from an older brother that got it from an older friend and again and again until a legit sale to some adult.
slopinthebag 2mo ago
Smoking is becoming cool again because lets face it, vaping makes you look like a bit of a nonce. Nicotine pouches are good too, but I think it's mostly men who use them. But yeah, smoking is on the rise. I'm a youngish person and whenever I go out and meet others, it's quite rare for someone to turn down a cig.

breezybottom 2mo ago

That doesn't mean it was enforced.

pessimizer 2mo ago
Was it? Are you just saying throwing manure, or do you think that children were regularly buying cigarettes in stores until just a decade ago? Do you think that pornographers and social networks are desperate for child users, and that they provide a significant amount of income? Do you think that rooting everyone's computer so the sites can comply by flipping a switch and never have to hear about this again will bother them in the slightest, except for pornographers being afraid that adults afraid to lose their anonymity will stop visiting? Social media has been trying to deanonymize users since Facebook's real name policy and G+. Deanonymized users are worth more. They love this idea, and don't give a shit about losing 17 year olds. It's proof that governments will do anything, even reinterpret their constitutions, in order to preserve the right of online multinationals to algorithmically manipulate adults for money.
- breezybottom 2mo ago
  Yes. Child porn was commercially sold in Europe and Japan until the late 2000s. There is no line that people won't cross for money.
  - pmontra 2mo ago
    I think that by "Child users" parent meant children buying porn or selling porn to children. It probably happened but I think that it was much less common than children getting a porn magazine from an older brother that got it from an older friend and again and again until a legit sale to some adult.

slopinthebag 2mo ago

Smoking is becoming cool again because lets face it, vaping makes you look like a bit of a nonce. Nicotine pouches are good too, but I think it's mostly men who use them. But yeah, smoking is on the rise. I'm a youngish person and whenever I go out and meet others, it's quite rare for someone to turn down a cig.