Ban selling cigarettes to anyone born after 2008, Ottawa Public Health urges Health Canada - eviltoast
  • Victor Villas@lemmy.ca
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    11 months ago

    Unlikely because the cigarettes can still enter the market and be commercialized legally, so the economics of contraband doesn’t change. It’s like the currently existing age restrictions already in place.

    We might observe some just not caring to check birthdates, like currently not every cashier asks for IDs selling alcohol as they should. But the benefit is still there if a decent percentage of the next generation will just trade cigarettes for vapes for the sake of convenience.