Prohibition is not the same as banning them for people born later than 2008 in any sense of the word.

We’re talking about banning for people who will never be able to buy cigarettes, not people who were able to and were later denied this.

With prohibition you’re conveniently missing the fact enforcement was poor and loopholes existed. Plus you were denying people alcohol who already drank.

Along with this was the fact that public support was not in favour.

I think you’ll find a lot of people support a blanket ban on smoking.

Also stop using the argument of appealing to authority.

Finally, I’m talking a pub full of people and you’re talking about one guy on blow. Yeah, seems like less people are using drugs than taking drugs. Obvious , right?

I’m not a prude. I’d support legalisation of certain drugs and decriminilisation of others. It depends purely (for me) on how damaging they are but they wouldn’t be for me to decide. I firmly believe though that drug users don’t belong in prison at all.

Edit: To make me belive this prohibition shit you’d have to convince me that prohibition fails when public support is high. Perhaps like a majority Islamic country where I would assume people support the banning of alcohol.

It seems to me like it works there fine.

Whatever we are doing to not turn into a shithole like America seems to be working.

Yes, parties without drugs do not exist. Youre right.

OK, so why exactly did prohibition fail? You ignored my question completely.

Are you really implying that people banning a substance doesn’t reduce the amount of people using it?

I can literally go to a pub and see a whole pub full of people drinking and smoking.

Where can I go to see a whole building of people smoking weed or taking drugs?

The aim isn’t to stop everyone, no sensible person would suggest that.

Are you even British? Not sure why you’d even care if you’re not.

Just don’t go.

Perfection is not the aim. Fewer people will be smoking tobacco over time. Smoking also has an easy alternative like vaping available.

It is also much easier to make alcohol at home than cigarettes.

Prohibition failed for multiple reasons. I’d suggest you look into it.

Of course you can. Over time fewer and fewer people will smoke.

The number of smokers have been going down for a long time now.

Really? Okay, so curl. You use it everyday. How’s that using ‘unix’ principles?

You’re just parroting the same old tired arguments.

Hold up, Vivaldi for privacy? I mean, Firefox is right there.

It’s a bit of an outdated way now. The newer way is to inject coolant directly into the batteries.

Awww. Don’t give up now. You’ve come so far!

Seven? That’s a very exact number.

Do you work for the rag in question?

I’m not hurt, my mum works directly with people in a similar situation mentioned in the article.

It just always makes me suspicious when a country’s media is more focused on “look how bad it is over there, you guys have it great”.

If the BBC did something like that about Australia I’d be like well why the fuck does that matter to me?

If you’re twelve that would have been a great insult 😂

Does your mummy and daddy know you’re using social media?

Most places get better terms, but this was the legal minimum sadly. That’s changed now but sick pay in the UK is not great at all, it heavily depends on your employer.

Yes, Australia famously has no poverty.

And what about France, Spain, Netherlands?

The UK is always the one that gets singled out by people like you. They all charge, BTW.

Typical Japanese superiority complex.

I’ll admit I found the race much better than I imagined especially with all the doom and gloom.

I feel that the drivers who are being most vocal are the ones who are less adaptive at the current time.

I get Max is not enjoying it, but he’s on over $50 million to race, and he’s arguably the best fucking racing driver of all time so get good.

I just find the whining of people a bit much when they get to live a life how they do.

So, what exactly is the shit at the British legal system about? It’d always interesting to see people push their narrative in odd places.