Interesting Links for 10-12-2021
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andrewducker- This New Tech Cuts Through Rock Without Grinding Into It
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- 2 bed flat for sale in London - with ridiculously massive bunker
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- Scots told to defer Christmas parties by national health authority
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- New Zealand plans to make it illegal for kids to buy cigarettes - for life
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- How Biden Is Reshaping The Courts (I am regularly aghast at how the USA chooses judges)
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- Real life horror movie scene
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- The furries are everywhere!
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- Student accommodation rents up by a third in three years
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Date: 2021-12-10 12:09 pm (UTC)The question is, I guess, whether the damage to health is higher with them being legal or not.
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Date: 2021-12-10 01:12 pm (UTC)If a black market supplies 1% of the population rather than a legal market supplying 5-10% of the population that's a health win.
What I don't know, having never been a smoker, is whether tobacco is "fun" enough to buy on the black market. Nicotine is very, very addictive, so I can see a reason for a black market for people who already smoke but would a 14 year old be tempted to try smoking compared to dope or ecstacy?
On the black market there's going to be tobacco in the country so the risk is probably diversion of legal supplies rather than smuggling I think. And I wonder what the margin is for selling illegal cigarettes rather than legal ones.
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Date: 2021-12-10 01:25 pm (UTC)And yes, my understanding is that nicotine is very addictive, but not actually any fun. Certainly not after the very beginning. Also very easy to spot unless you're only doing it at home, so easier to crack down on.
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Date: 2021-12-10 02:16 pm (UTC)