Good. Other European countries can learn and take similarly restrictive approaches.
In Slovenia we implemented universal bland brandles packaging for cigarettes, IMO we should also do the same for other tobacco products and vapes, perhaps mandate the color of vapes. I think down the line a good idea would be to also ban smoking in public.
Prohibition 2.0
>The products will also be prohibited at music festivals.
Thank god, now we will just be able to take lines instead
Good.
Had me nervous for a moment there
Vapes don’t contain tobacco
Strange. In order to fight against a large heroine problem the country was facing between ’95 and’ 00, portugal decriminalized the consume of the substance and its possession. This unique approached successfully decreased the consume of heroine around the country, and proved once again that prohibition is not a solution.
Why are they going now backwards with tabac and vaping?
The War on Tobacco will be a another success story in the anthology of the War on Drugs.
As a non smoker, this doesn’t particularly make me happy. Portugal and Switzerland fixed their respective issues with heroin by decriminalizing and offering support to addicts. This is the approach that actually worked, unlike US’ war on drugs.
I would expect a solution more on this level from them. What would actually make me happy is for any product containing nicotine: added flavor should be forbidden (see minty cigarettes and fruity vapes), as well as packages should have zero custom designs: full white package with black font (name of the brand) and the legalese on top of it. No custom pack shape, design, fonts, colors.
The goal is to minimise the appeal, not to make it more interesting by forbidding it. Remember that most smoking begins with teenagers: prevent the habbit from starting altogether.
If teenagers wanna look cool, they should just have the option to get fruity vapes without addictive substances.
Good. This is not fully prohibition btw this just makes a lot harder and inconvenient to buy tobacco/vapes and smoke.
Doing this things doesn’t mean that you are going against the addict and you won’t help him. It’s not incompatible
War on tobacco maybe makes sense – but definitely not vaping
Or hear me out. make vapes a “health product” that could be only taken with a note from a certified psychiatrist to help with addiction. and make the rest of the tobacco products prohibited.
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Good on them. Not being sarcastic
Good. Other European countries can learn and take similarly restrictive approaches.
In Slovenia we implemented universal bland brandles packaging for cigarettes, IMO we should also do the same for other tobacco products and vapes, perhaps mandate the color of vapes. I think down the line a good idea would be to also ban smoking in public.
Prohibition 2.0
>The products will also be prohibited at music festivals.
Thank god, now we will just be able to take lines instead
Good.
Had me nervous for a moment there
Vapes don’t contain tobacco
Strange. In order to fight against a large heroine problem the country was facing between ’95 and’ 00, portugal decriminalized the consume of the substance and its possession. This unique approached successfully decreased the consume of heroine around the country, and proved once again that prohibition is not a solution.
Why are they going now backwards with tabac and vaping?
The War on Tobacco will be a another success story in the anthology of the War on Drugs.
As a non smoker, this doesn’t particularly make me happy. Portugal and Switzerland fixed their respective issues with heroin by decriminalizing and offering support to addicts. This is the approach that actually worked, unlike US’ war on drugs.
I would expect a solution more on this level from them. What would actually make me happy is for any product containing nicotine: added flavor should be forbidden (see minty cigarettes and fruity vapes), as well as packages should have zero custom designs: full white package with black font (name of the brand) and the legalese on top of it. No custom pack shape, design, fonts, colors.
The goal is to minimise the appeal, not to make it more interesting by forbidding it. Remember that most smoking begins with teenagers: prevent the habbit from starting altogether.
If teenagers wanna look cool, they should just have the option to get fruity vapes without addictive substances.
Good. This is not fully prohibition btw this just makes a lot harder and inconvenient to buy tobacco/vapes and smoke.
Doing this things doesn’t mean that you are going against the addict and you won’t help him. It’s not incompatible
War on tobacco maybe makes sense – but definitely not vaping
Or hear me out. make vapes a “health product” that could be only taken with a note from a certified psychiatrist to help with addiction. and make the rest of the tobacco products prohibited.
Ah, the start of a thriving black market.
Ahhh, smell that freedom.