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Re:Smoking ban for people born after 2008 in the UK agreed by butlike on Tuesday April 21, 2026 @03:57PM (#47853735)
Well to be fair, it's not that they can't, it's that society is telling them there will be repercussions if they're caught. You can still technically do whatever you want.
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Re:Smoking ban for people born after 2008 in the UK agreed by AberrantJ on Tuesday April 21, 2026 @04:23PM (#47854078)
Laws are threats made by the dominant socioeconomic-ethnic group in a given nation. It’s just the promise of violence that’s enacted and the police are basically an occupying army.
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