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bonoboTP on July 31, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: Advertising Is a Cancer on Society

The good solution - already practiced in many European countries for alcohol and tobacco - is to punish the store if they sell to a minor, not the kid who buys it.

scarface74 on Aug 1, 2019 [–]

The store is punished. The store usually doesn’t sell to the minor, a minor can get someone overage to get it from them - especially in college.

It also hasn’t stopped kids from getting weed and cigarettes.

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