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It's the sliding scale thing, I can see it now, shop keepers with a calculator. A more workable policy would be to say, cigarettes will be unavailable after this date. A policy that says adult of one age can do something, whilst another cannot is very very difficult to police surely ? It would...

It's a completely unworkable policy and that's the issue. Quite difficult to vote against of course. Over time you need to make smoking socially unacceptable and too much of a hassle. If this legalisation goes through, you'll simply see an upturn in the black market.

Well being but badly thought out policy. If you ban something additive, it will just increase the black market. Paradoxically (this is why I've always been a bit nuanced about the legalisation of drugs) if you legalise and state control a drug, others will find ways to supply it cheaper...