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you can make it illegal to sell and only a fine for getting caught. Major retailers won't do it, cornershops("/bodegas" for the US) that sell under the counter will do it until they get caught, new ones won't bother because they want their business to be a success, and honestly, probably make more money on chewing gum than black market fags
nicotine high isn't worth the effort to a dealer to sell if you're used to selling fent, coke, weed, triple sod, clarky cat etc
gone within a generation. if you really want it, go to France, smuggle it. it's probably not worth it.
Mostly just the New York City area. In the Boston area they're "packies" (not an ethnic slur -- it's "package store") and most of the rest of the country it's a "convenience store" or "corner store".
Black market cigarettes is a very real thing actually.
fair comment but so is black market everything — from heroin to beanie babies.
Yea and the black market is one of the main reason things are harmful. 1 they r unregulated so your getting God knows what 2 they're most likely connected to gangs or your countries version of them so ur prolly funding then and 3 it creates a stigma around the drug causing addicts to be less likely to seek out help
right but people still murder, even though murder is illegal
no one thinks that murder should be legal (except for the guys from Alfred Hitchcock's Rope)
Drugs are a personal vice which the person can do without ever harming another person. Murder is murder. I don't think it should be legal for drug addicts to steal for their drugs, even tho some will whether or not its legal because that involves harming another person.