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  "path": "/t/uk-plans-to-pass-law-banning-anyone-born-after-2008-to-buy-or-smoke-cigarettes/37301?page=3#post_42",
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  "textContent": "Good point. I feel very skeptical about the idea that banning cigarettes for everyone will make them go away. I thought the current compromise we see in many western countries is working quite well, where people have to smoke outside pubs, for example.\n\nI don’t know if the fact an addictive product was recently introduced means that it will more easily disappear when banned.",
  "title": "UK plans to pass law banning anyone born after 2008 to buy or smoke cigarettes"
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