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Now, this is a good thing, but I can't help but imagine in 2099, a 90yr old begging their friends to sell them a pack
Vaping is still legal. Why wouldn't he just get his nicotine high from a vape?
Same reason my smoker friend tells me he hates vaping: "it just hits different"
It does feel very different! Smoking is way worse for you and way nastier but it DOES feel ways that no amount of nicotine in a vape can feel.
But having to use a shitty black market for cigarettes every day would surely motivate most of them to try to learn to love the vape.
The black market would then only be supported by irredeemable vape haters. Who got hooked on cigarettes while never in their life being able to buy them legally. Which doesn't seem like a big market to me - so might not be big enough to be profitable.
The black market is easily available to those who use something that can only be bought through it. You can only be introduced to something by someone who already has a connection and once you have that one connection, you often find more.
Sometimes the black market can actually even be more convenient than regulated shops, like soon people in the UK will have their local tobacco dude who'll drop your stuff off at your doorstep
Black market encompasses all unregulated sales, most of which is just people selling to people they know, word of mouth etc.
Better they buy regulated weed, in edibles, oil, or otherwise.
Lol I see your an optimist when it comes to uk recreational
I mean, I do not think they will, just that that would be less bad.