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Smoking is bad, but prohibition of drugs just drives them underground and denies freedom. Bad call UK
The black market is going to thrive.
I tend to agree, but if they are only making it illegal for the population that isn't addicted, not many are going to go out of their way to get black market tobacco and become addicted. It isn't a prohibition for those already sucked in by big tobacco, which would 100% lead to underground exchanges. But for the rest, I feel like there's better drugs if you're looking for a good time
You underestimate the number of teens that currently smoke and number of new teens that will take up smoking even under this system.
Yea, people can become addicted by second hand smoke and start craving it. Anyone can just bum a cigarette off of someone else; it happens all the time in bars and social spaces where people are allowed to smoke.
There will always be a black market for narcotics. People enjoy drugs. In this case it will just grow slowly instead of springing up to fill a void. Prohibition doesn't work, it just pushes it under the rug.
The real solution is having spaces where people can indulge safely (as possible for an action that is inherently harmful), there is plenty of readily available information on the effects and consequences of partaking in these spaces, and these spaces are removed enough to where they do not cause harm to those who wish to abstain. From there, let people make their own choices. It's their life to live how they wish.
Now, the marketing and distribution of these narcotics is called into question but those issues are intersectional with other, far greater social ills that don't just plague the narcotics industry.
Banning it will make it more enticing.