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Realistically, I assume that anyone who wants tobacco and would be affected is just going to buy it outside city limits.
Yep. My hometown restricted beer and wine sales and that is exactly what we did. It was a 15min drive instead of what could have been a 5min drive.
We had a religious township do that, now the highway to the nearest wet town has the highest rate of drunkdriving deaths in the province.
I lived in a dry county growing up. If someone was headed "across the bridge" it meant they were heading to the border of the next county where they had a bar and 4 liquor stores within a half mile stretch.
It's weird that I grew up in a county that didn't sell alcohol but there were more liquor stores within 10 miles than there were grocery stores.
Username checks out. Dry/wet town/county lines are a very common experience there
When you're as drunk and Texan as I am you know where to go to get liquor.
It's getting less prevalent. Last I heard my hometown is now wet and the closest town down the street serves beer at the only restaurant there. In the last 20 years things have started loosening up a little.
People will drive to county limits, but policies like this have been shown to actually be quite effective. Even if you are willing to drive to a neighboring county, will you do it as often?
No, I'll just stock up on more at once.
United States, 1920s, alcohol.
Very much the opposite
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.