• gamermanh@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    8 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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      8 months ago

      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.