@vozercozer no... The problem with tobacco is how addictive nicotine is. Like the most addictive thing we know of. So people starting smoking is the issue - if we could stop Tobacco getting its claws in people, the demand would fizzle and die.
Instead of people going through that.
Tobacco kills HALF its users. Half! We would not allow ANY new product with that risk. The problem is addicts already exist.
So it's about phasing it out. It's not ageism, the point is that people start smoking at some time so you block access before then.

Existing smokers need quit strategies and that's a different ballgame. That's why we now have plain packaging, health warnings, advertising bans and purchase by request only, not on the shelves.

I hope that helps. Please read more around this bill.
#stopSmoking #bigTobacco #tobaccoAndVapesBill

@harriorrihar

For instance, everyone who smokes tobacco products and sees marijuana as an illegal substance is a result of American nationalism/racism and #BigTobacco lobbying for the US government to classify it as illegal.

Marijuana is quite literally one of the most versatile plants on the planet. But because a bunch of rich white men in America could not control it to make profit from it, they decided to focus on the addiction aspect, as if tobacco isn't also addictive.