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Originally posted by Jean Paul Zodeaux
reply to post by Darky5K
There will always be a black market but the tobacco mobsters you refer to are a very small percentage when compared to the syndicate involved in black marketeering of prohibited drugs. Most people who smoke cigarettes buy those cigarettes on the free and open market, even now at a time where excessive taxation on them encourages black market sales.
In terms of justifying large numbers of police by pointing to prohibition laws that do little to prevent drug use and much to create industries such as police states, the pirates and black marketeers you describe would a welcome change.
Originally posted by SRHAZE420
...in theory.
sadly, we are placated by so many things that such an awareness would never reach a level until something catastrophic happens.