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**Chris** · 09-03-2011, 20:22

Education and persuasion is always more effective in the long term. As Ignition pointed out earlier, if you simply slap an overnight ban on smoking, all you achieve is to create a massive demand for a black market trade in tobacco.

The long term strategy of taking tobacco out of the public view is designed to reduce take-up of smoking, and reduce the number of people who go back to it after quitting. And health campaigns are designed to encourage people to quit.

All of this is more effective than simply banning. And as for 'allowed to buy them' ... well you have to take responsibility for yourself sooner or later, don't you. Very few people who smoke today can claim they don't know what the risks are.

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Chris Trollsplatter Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: North of Watford Services: Humane elimination of all common Internet pests Posts: 38,264	Re: More smoking restrictions (is it enough?) Education and persuasion is always more effective in the long term. As Ignition pointed out earlier, if you simply slap an overnight ban on smoking, all you achieve is to create a massive demand for a black market trade in tobacco. The long term strategy of taking tobacco out of the public view is designed to reduce take-up of smoking, and reduce the number of people who go back to it after quitting. And health campaigns are designed to encourage people to quit. All of this is more effective than simply banning. And as for 'allowed to buy them' ... well you have to take responsibility for yourself sooner or later, don't you. Very few people who smoke today can claim they don't know what the risks are.