• tal@lemmy.today
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    7 months ago

    Realistically, I assume that anyone who wants tobacco and would be affected is just going to buy it outside city limits.

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      7 months ago

      People will drive to county limits, but policies like this have been shown to actually be quite effective. Even if you are willing to drive to a neighboring county, will you do it as often?

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        7 months ago

        policies like this have been shown to actually be quite effective

        United States, 1920s, alcohol.

        Very much the opposite

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          That’s a very different scenario and it required committing crimes to drink. County-level policies like cigarette bans and sugar taxes have legal ways for you to bypass them, but still discourage use.