Imagine working your entire life and then dieing to covid during retirement. A tiny fraction of your life was free.

Violence is the most direct and effective method of control, of obtaining and maintaining power.

And that is why nation states have a monopoly on it

Victorian hikers? Did they fucking travel back in time?

They are either domestic bootlegs or imports. If cigarettes were actually fully banned, organized crime groups would begin mass cigarette smuggling and manufacturing operations. Sounds ridiculous, but it’s true

Not necessarily. People could actually start smoking more because tax free cigarettes are astronomically cheaper

Moving the goalposts or something like that?

Humans have been smoking tobacco for thousands of years. Banning it will only allow the black market to swell to an unimaginable size

First and foremost, people have the right to slowly kill themselves with cigarettes as long as it isn’t harming innocent bystanders.

Arguably more importantly, the proposed ban is worryingly dystopian.

Finally, agreeing with anything Sunak does is unforgivable. And in this case would reflect neo-liberal sympathies.

Well for one, piracy often helps artists by getting their media in the hands of more people, hence more exposure