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At this point who does not know smoking causes cancer? The research is older than my parents.

It’s a fully optional and expensive vice that adults who know the risks partake in. Most places don’t let smokers smoke indoors anymore to reduce second hand smoke risks. Nobody lets kids buy cigarettes.

Alcohol is bad for, should it be banned? How about sugar? People might get hurt rock climbing, should that be banned?

I bring up the slippery slope not as a theory, but because we’re watching it happen in the UK with porn bans, forced identity verification, now criminal prosecution of porn actors, pushes to ban VPNs, and all these vice substances. The UK isn’t at the top of a slope they’re rolling down it.